Bank Millennium arouses pan-European interest, but BCP remains unruffled

The Portuguese newspaper speculated that an agreement with some of these banks concerning cooperation with the servicing of small- and medium-sized companies could be signed after May, 1, when the country's credit ratings will improve. Still, the bank's main shareholder, BCP, itself the second-largest bank in Portugal, stressed that it has no intention to withdraw from business in this country. "I don't want to comment on the press releases concerning relationships between Millennium and any other bank. We want to carry on our operations in Poland," said Paulo Fidalgo, a BCP spokesperson. (Parkiet, p. 3) M.K.