Banking in Italy
There are three main types of credit institutions and banks in Italy.
However,
History
The Etruscans and the early Romans did not have true minted coinage for many centuries. Debt and debt bondage, however, were probably rife. Wealthy landowners would make an "advance loan" of seed, foodstuffs or other essentials to tenants, clients and smallholders, in return for a promise of labour services or a substantial share of the crop. The terms of such "loans" compelled defaulters to sell themselves, or their dependants, to their creditor; or, if smallholders, to surrender their farm. Wealthy aristocratic Etruscan and Roman landholders thus acquired additional farms and service for very little outlay.[5] It has been argued that this loan system can be considered an embryonic version of banking as practiced in antiquity.
With the eventual expansion of Roman monetization, a variety of officials came to be associated with
The origins of modern banking can be traced to the
One of the most famous Italian banks was the
In 1893, following the Banca Romana scandal, the Italian government formed the Bank of Italy, the nation's first central bank, as part of massive reforms to the banking sector.[9]
List of banks by total assets
Italy had 11 banking groups (excluding banking group that owned by foreign banks) that were supervised by the European Central Bank directly. According to Mediobanca, the overall number of banks and credits institutions in Italy stands at 439 in 2022, which is a sharp decrease from the 740 that were operating in 2011.[10]
However, ECB considered ICCREA Banca, the clearing house of Italian cooperative banks federation as one banking group, which the publication of Mediobanca considered the cooperative banks are individual entities, such as Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Roma was ranked 22nd in the publication, while ICCREA Banca and Bank of Italy were excluded from the publication.
The following is a list of the main Italian banks ranked by total assets and gross premiums written.
- As of December 2022[10]
Rank (by Mediobanca) | Company | Total Assets (billion €) | RWAs (thousands €) | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Intesa Sanpaolo | 975.68 | domestic systemically important bank;[11] supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
2 | UniCredit | 857.77 | global systemically important bank (Bucket 1) identified by Financial Stability Board;[13] supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
* | Bank of Italy | central bank | ||
3 | Cassa Depositi e Prestiti | 400.69 | national investment bank, majority owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance | |
* | Poste italiane |
joint-control by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and the Ministry of Economy and Finance | ||
* | Istituto per il Credito Sportivo | a subsidiary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance | ||
4 | Banco BPM | 189.69 | domestic systemically important bank;[11] supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
5 | BPER Banca | 152.3 | supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
6 | Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena | 120.24 | domestic systemically important bank;[11] supervised by European Central Bank,[12] minority owned by Ministry of Economy and Finance (legacy of the 2017 bailout) | |
7 | Banca Nazionale del Lavoro | 104.09 | subsidiary of BNP Paribas | |
8 | Mediobanca | 93.74 | supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
9 | Crédit Agricole Italia | 58.42 | subsidiary of Crédit Agricole | |
10 | Banca Mediolanum | 73.6 | Also an leading insurance company, supervised by European Central Bank | |
11 | Credito Emiliano | 65.04 | supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
12 | Banca Popolare di Sondrio | 53.30 | supervised by European Central Bank[12] | |
* | ICCREA Banca | 38.12 [14]: 375 | 12,834,414[14]: 30 | clearing house owned by 300+ regional banks, supervised by European Central Bank[12] |
13 | Deutsche Bank (Italy) | 23.93 | subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG | |
14 | Banco di Desio e della Brianza | 13.98 | ||
15 | Banca Sella Group | 13.97 | ||
16 | Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Roma | 11.59 | Will be part of ICCREA Banca Group as shareholder | |
17 | Cassa di Risparmio di Asti | 11.51 |
- Note: Banks with assets less than €10 billion were omitted from this wiki list. Barclays Bank, Italian branch was also excluded
See also
References
- ^ "Overview of Banks in Italy". Corporate Finance Institute.
- ISBN 978-1-5275-3752-1. Archivedfrom the original on 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
- ISBN 978-0-86516-507-6. Archivedfrom the original on 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
- S2CID 188993120.
- ^ See discussion in Cornell, pp. 281–283
- ^ Hoggson, N. F. (1926) Banking Through the Ages, New York, Dodd, Mead & Company.
- ^ Goldthwaite, R. A. (1995) Banks, Places and Entrepreneurs in Renaissance Florence, Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain, Variorum
- ISBN 978-0-275-96777-2. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
The first state deposit bank was the Bank of St. George in Genoa, which was established in 1407.
- ^ Gigliobianco, Alfredo; Giordano, Claire. "No. 5 - Economic Theory and Banking Regulation: The Italian Case (1861-1930s)". Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Largest Italian banks in 2020, by total assets". September 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ a b c "Identification of the UniCredit, Intesa Sanpaolo, Banco BPM and Monte dei Paschi di Siena banking groups" (Press release). Bank of Italy. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "List of supervised entities" (PDF). European Central Bank. 1 January 2023. pp. 12–. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "2017 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs)" (Press release). Financial Stability Board. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ a b 2018 Bilancio Consolidato [2018 Consolidated financial report] (PDF) (in Italian). ICCREA Banca. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.