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BAPR
Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa S.C.p.A. is an Italian cooperative bank based in Ragusa, Sicily. The bank had 84 branches inside the island (in the areas of Ragusa, Catania, Siracusa, Messina, Palermo, Enna), plus one branch in mainland Italy, in Milan. History The foundation of the bank dates back to 10 March 1889, the date on which the Banca Popolare Cooperativa di Ragusa was born (later incorporated into the institution in question, founded in 1902). In 1999 the bank was ranked 9th in terms of branches on the island with 56 branches, behind Banco di Sicilia, Banca Popolare di Lodi, Banca Antonveneta, Banca Commerciale Italiana, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Banca Popolare Sant'Angelo, Credito Valtellinese and Credito Emiliano. The bank was only ahead Sanpaolo IMI which had 50 branches. After several merger and acquisitions, the aforementioned banks became part of the UniCredit, Banco BPM (as Banco Popolare Siciliano), Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Intesa Sanpao ...
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Ragusa, Sicily
Ragusa (; scn, Rausa ; la, Ragusia) is a city and ''comune'' in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with 73,288 inhabitants in 2016. It is built on a wide limestone hill between two deep valleys, Cava San Leonardo and Cava Santa Domenica. Together with seven other cities in the Val di Noto, it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History The origins of Ragusa can be traced back to the 2nd millennium BC, when there were several Sicel settlements in the area. The current district of Ragusa Ibla has been identified as Hybla Heraea. The ancient city, located on a hill, came into contact with nearby Greek colonies, and grew thanks to the nearby port of Camerina. After a short period of Carthaginian rule, it fell into the hands of the ancient Romans and the Byzantines, who fortified the city and built a large castle. Ragusa was occupied by the Arabs in 848  AD and remained under their rule until the 11th century, wh ...
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Cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".Statement on the Cooperative Identity.
'' International Cooperative Alliance.''
Cooperatives are democratically controlled by their members, with each member having one vote in electing the board of directors. Cooperatives may include: * es owned and managed by the people who cons ...
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Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (), known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank. Tracing its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472 () and established in its present form in 1624 (), it is the world's oldest or second oldest bank, depending on the definition, and the fifth largest Italian commercial and retail bank. In 1995, the bank (then known as Monte dei Paschi di Siena) was transformed from a statutory corporation to a limited company called Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Banca MPS). The Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena was created to continue the charitable functions of the bank and to be, until the bailout in 2013, its largest single shareholder. According to research by Mediobanca and a press release issued by Banco BPM, Banco BPM overtook BMPS as the third largest commercial banking group in Italy (in terms of total assets) on 31 December 2016, after Banco BPM's formal formation on 1 January 2017. In 2016–17, BMPS was struggling to avoid a co ...
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ARCA SGR
Arca Fondi SGR SpA (Italian: ) is an Italian fund management company based in Milan. The company was born from the experience of Arca SGR SpA, founded in October 1983, thanks to the effort of 12 Italian Cooperative Banks and over the years has added other credit institutions and financial companies as distributors. Arca Fondi SGR is today one of the leading companies in asset management in Italy thanks to its widespread presence: over 100 distributors, 8000 bank branches, as well as a network of financial advisors and online channels. History In September 1984 the first two Arca mutual funds, Arca BB and Arca RR Diversified Bond, were launched on the market. In 1987 the company reached a historic milestone, the first 100,000 customers. Arca Fondi was one of the first companies to offer open pension funds in Italy, thanks to the opening in 1998 of Arca Previdenza. In 2009, with Arca Cedola Funds, it is among the first companies on the market to launch income distribution products, ...
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Ministry Of Economy And Finance (Italy)
The Ministry of Economy and Finance ( it, Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze), also known by the acronym MEF, is a ministry of the Italian government. Its responsibilities include overseeing economic policy, public investments and spending. The Ministry's headquarters are located in Rome's historic ''Palazzo delle Finanze''. The current minister in the Meloni Cabinet is Giancarlo Giorgetti. History Already in 1947 the De Gasperi III Cabinet tried to merge the pre-existing Ministries of Treasure and Finance but it found a political opposition due to the great power concentrated in the hands of minister Pietro Campilli, and the project was abandoned for over fifty years. MEF was created with the Bassanini reform which unified the economical ministers with the legislative decree n. 300 of 1999. In 2001 the Berlusconi II Cabinet applied the reform and the MEF was created with the merger of former ministries: the Ministry of Treasure, Budget and Economic Programming and the ...
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Credito Siciliano
Credito Siciliano was an Italian bank headquartered in Acireale, Sicily and previously Palermo. It was a subsidiary of Credito Valtellinese until its merger by incorporation into Credito Valtellinese in June 2018. The bank had 136 branches, 133 located in Sicily (Province of Agrigento: 4; Province of Caltanissetta: 7; Province of Catania: 51; Province of Enna: 2; Province of Messina: 18; Province of Palermo: 26; Province of Ragusa: 9; Province of Siracusa: 6 and Province of Trapani: 10), plus 3 more in mainland Italy (Milan, Rome, Turin). Predecessors Banca del Monte Sant'Agata Three separate mounts of piety ( it, monti di pietà) were founded in Catania, at that time part of the Kingdom of Sicily. Monte Grande di Pietà di Sant'Agata, the second mount of the city that named after St.Agatha of Sicily, was founded on 17 December 1809. The mount survived until the modern age of Italy, which was last known as Monte di Credito su Pegno – Banca del Monte Sant'Agata di Catania, a ...
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Banca Carige
Banca Carige S.p.A., historically known as Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia (Ca.Ri.Ge.) is an Italian bank based in Genoa, with more than 500 bank branches in Italy. The predecessor of the bank, a mount of piety, was founded in 1483 in Genoa, the Republic of Genoa. Banca Carige and its subsidiaries are known as Banca Carige Group ( it, Gruppo Banca Carige). The banking group, as of 1 April 2018, is one of the larger banking groups that were supervised by the European Central Bank. , the banking group had 529 branches throughout Italy, with one branch in Nice, France. About 37.2% branches are located in the home region Liguria. History 1483–1990: Early Years In 1483, the Franciscan religious Angelo Da Chivasso, founded the mount of piety ( it, Monte di Pietà) of Genoa. In 1846, a decree of Piedmont-Sardinia King Charles Albert of Sardinia created the Cassa di Risparmio di Genova, which extended the basic financial services of the mount to encourage and protect small s ...
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Intesa Sanpaolo
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. is an Italian international banking group. It is Italy's largest bank by total assets and the world's 27th largest. It was formed through the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI in 2007, but has a corporate identity stretching back to its first foundation as Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino in 1583. In 2020 the bank served approximately 14.6 million customers in Italy and 7.2 million customers in Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East and North Africa through several brands such as CIB Bank, VÚB Banka and Bank of Alexandria. By 2010 its assets had grown to US$877.66 billion, ranking 26th in ''Forbes Global 2000''. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. History Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI, the two banks that merged in 2007 to create Intesa Sanpaolo, were themselves the product of many mergers. Cariplo and Banco Ambrosiano Veneto merged in 1998 to form Banca Intesa. The following year Banca Commercial ...
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Banco Popolare Siciliano
Banco Popolare Siciliano is a brand used by Banco Popolare in Sicily. History Predecessors Banco Popolare Group had presented in Sicily since 1990s due to merger and acquisitions. According to Banca d'Italia data on 30 September 1999, Banca Popolare di Lodi (BPL) had 118 branches on the island, accounted for 7.3% of the total number of branches on the island. It was the second-largest banking network on the island, behind Banco di Sicilia which had a 34% market share. The sum of second to sixth largest banks on the island, was still smaller than Banco di Sicilia. In 2006, a year before the formation of Banco Popolare, Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara had 17 branches on the island, as well as more than 100 branches of Banca Popolare Italiana (ex-BPL). In 2007, the merger of BPVN and BPI made Banco Popolare had 143 branches on the island, which was increased to 145 in the next year. In the same year Banca Popolare di Novara transferred all its 18 branches to Banca Popolare d ...
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Banco BPM
Banco BPM società per azioni, S.p.A. is an Italian bank that started to operate on 1 January 2017, by the merger of Banco Popolare and Banca Popolare di Milano (BPM) (approved by the board of directors on 24 May 2016). The bank is the third largest retail and corporate banking conglomerate in Italy (in terms of total assets in 2016), behind Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit. The bank had dual headquarters in Verona and Milan respectively. The shares of the bank is a constituent of Italian blue chip index FTSE MIB; in 2018 ''Forbes Global 2000'', Banco BPM was ranked the 831st. History , the date of formation, Banco BPM is the third largest retail and commercial banking conglomerate by ''pro forma'' total assets in Italy, behind UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo, and surpassing the former third largest bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (€164.385 billion at mid-2016). Although the Bank of Italy, the central bank, and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the national investment bank, t ...
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UniCredit
UniCredit S.p.A. is an international banking group headquartered in Milan. It is Italy's only systemically important bank (according to the list provided by the Financial Stability Board in 2022) and the world's 34th largest by assets. It was formed through the merger of Credito Italiano and Unicredito in 1998 but has a corporate identity stretching back to its first foundation in 1870 as Banca di Genova. UniCredit is listed on the Milan and Frankfurt stock exchanges, is a constituent stock of the Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading shares. With corporate & investment banking, commercial banking and wealth management operations, Unicredit is a pan-European bank with a strong presence in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Through its European banking network, it provides access to market-leading products and services in 13 core markets (Italy, Germany as HypoVereinsbank, Austria as Bank Austria and eleven Central and Eastern European countries. History Founding through mer ...
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