List of banks in Italy


Italy had 11 banking group that were supervised by the European Central Bank directly. According Mediobanca, there are more than 350 banking groups or independent banks as of 2017. 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

Rank CompanyTotal Assets RWAs Type
1UniCredit 833,405,000global systemically important bank identified by Financial Stability Board; was supervised by European Central Bank
2Intesa Sanpaolo 789,104,000domestic systemically important bank; was supervised by European Central Bank
*Bank of Italycentral bank
3Cassa Depositi e Prestiti 367,253,385national investment bank, majority owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance
*BancoPosta division of Poste italianejoint-control by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and the Ministry of Economy and Finance
*Istituto per il Credito Sportivoa subsidiary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance
4Banco BPM 159,909,605domestic systemically important bank; was supervised by European Central Bank
5Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena 138,870,957domestic systemically important bank; was supervised by European Central Bank, majority owned by Ministry of Economy and Finance after bail-out
6UBI Banca 125,647,466Supervised by European Central Bank
7Banca Nazionale del Lavoro 78,771,699subsidiary of BNP Paribas
8BPER Banca 70,832,180was supervised by European Central Bank
9Mediobanca 69,893,356was supervised by European Central Bank
10Crédit Agricole Italia 64,753,301subsidiary of Crédit Agricole
11Banca Mediolanum 42,986,102Also an leading insurance company
12Banca Popolare di Sondrio 41,600,934was supervised by European Central Bank
13Credito Emiliano 41,158,623was supervised by European Central Bank
*ICCREA Banca 38,127,486 12,834,414clearing house owned by 300+ regional banks, was supervised by European Central Bank
14Credito Valtellinese 24,912,233
15Banca Carige 24,884,699was supervised by European Central Bank
16Deutsche Bank 23,927,035subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG
17Crediop 20,528,312subsidiary of Dexia
18Banca Popolare di Bari 14,254,011
19Banco di Desio e della Brianza 13,977,876
20Unipol Banca 13,955,544On 25 November 2019 Unipol Banca was incorporated into BPER Banca.
21Banca Sella Group 13,706,688
22Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Roma 11,587,556Will be part of ICCREA Banca Group as shareholder
23Cassa di Risparmio di Asti 11,509,909