“We are going to file in the coming days with the AMF the offer to buy back CNP Assurances shares”,
announces Philippe Heim, chairman of the management board of La Banque Postale (LBP).
More than two years after the integration of CNP Assurances, of which it has owned 79% since December, the subsidiary of La Poste should withdraw from the stock market, in May or June, this French heavyweight in life insurance (1.55 billion euros in profits in 2021).
The takeover of CNP Assurances' minority interests, a project announced at the end of October, will cost it a total of 5.7 billion euros.
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