(Adds Euronext confirming talks)
MILAN/PARIS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Pan-European exchange
Euronext and Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e
Prestiti (CDP) confirmed on Friday they were in talks to buy the
Milan stock exchange Borsa Italiana.
Euronext said in a statement it would make a further
announcement as and when appropriate.
In a separate statement, CDP said it had decided to submit a
non-binding bid jointly with Euronext for Borsa Italiana.
The Milan stock exchange has been put on the block by the
London Stock Exchange (LSE), which acquired it in 2007
and is now trying to sell as part of antitrust remedies to clear
its $27 billion acquisition of data provider Refinitiv.
Sources told Reuters on Thursday that Euronext had granted
CDP significant influence in the combined business to secure an
alliance with the Italian state agency in the competition for
Borsa Italiana.
(Reporting by Valentina Za and Matthieu Protard; Editing by
James Mackenzie and David Clarke)