ECB gave no deadline for Monte Paschi to find buyer: CEO

Reuters

Published Apr 16, 2015 02:44PM ET

ECB gave no deadline for Monte Paschi to find buyer: CEO

MILAN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has not set a deadline for Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena to find a buyer but wants to see precise steps in this direction, the lender's chief executive said on Thursday.

Fabrizio Viola told reporters the bank did not have any suitors for now.

The ECB wants "defined steps over time, without an excessive uncertainty" over the timeframe of a merger, Viola said.