Italy had 11 banking group (excluding banking group that owned by foreign banks) that were supervised by the European Central Bank directly. According Mediobanca, there are more than 350 banking groups or independent banks as of 2017.[1] 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.

List of banks by total assets

As of 17 January 2022[1]
Rank (by Mediobanca) Company Total Assets (billion €) RWAs (thousands €) Type
Steady 1 Intesa Sanpaolo Increase 1,002.61 domestic systemically important bank;[2] was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
Steady 2 UniCredit Increase 931.46 global systemically important bank (Bucket 1) identified by Financial Stability Board;[4] was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
* Bank of Italy central bank
Steady 3 Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Increase 410.35 national investment bank, majority owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance
* BancoPosta division of 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
Steady 4 Banco BPM Increase 183.69 domestic systemically important bank;[2] was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
Steady 5 Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Increase 150.36 domestic systemically important bank;[2] was supervised by European Central Bank,[3] majority owned by Ministry of Economy and Finance after bail-out
Increase 6 BPER Banca Increase 134.17 was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
Steady 7 Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Increase 95.9 subsidiary of BNP Paribas (was supervised by European Central Bank)
Decrease 8 Mediobanca Increase 78.95 was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
Steady 9 Crédit Agricole Italia Decrease 58.42 subsidiary of Crédit Agricole (was supervised by European Central Bank)
10 Banca Mediolanum Increase 59.03 Also an leading insurance company
11 Credito Emiliano Increase 56.65 was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
12 Banca Popolare di Sondrio Increase 53.30 was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
* ICCREA Banca Decrease 38.12 [5]: 375  Steady 12,834,414[5]: 30  clearing house owned by 300+ regional banks, was supervised by European Central Bank[3]
13 Deutsche Bank (Italy) Steady 023.93 subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG (was supervised by European Central Bank)
14 Crediop Decrease 020.53 subsidiary of Dexia (was supervised by European Central Bank)
15 Banca Popolare di Bari Increase 014.25
16 Banco di Desio e della Brianza Increase 013.98
17 Banca Sella Group Increase 013.97
18 Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Roma Increase 011.59 Will be part of ICCREA Banca Group as shareholder
19 Cassa di Risparmio di Asti Decrease 011.51
Note: Banks with assets less than €10 billion were omitted from this wiki list. Barclays Bank, Italian branch was also excluded

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Largest Italian banks in 2020, by total assets". September 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "List of supervised entities" (PDF). European Central Bank. 1 January 2018. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  4. ^ "2017 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs)" (Press release). Financial Stability Board. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  5. ^ a b 2018 Bilancio Consolidato [2018 Consolidated financial report] (PDF) (in Italian). ICCREA Banca. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.