Ca' de Sass in Milan, head office of Intesa SanpaoloUniCredit Tower (center), head office in MilanBanco BPM head office, MilanBPER group services center, ModenaMonte dei Paschi head office, SienaBanca Nazionale del Lavoro head office, Rome
The followinglist of banks in Italy is to be understood within the framework of theEuropean single market andEuropean banking union, which means thatItaly's banking system is more open to cross-border banking operations than peers outside of the EU.
European banking supervision distinguishes betweensignificant institutions (SIs) andless significant institutions (LSIs), with SI/LSI designations updated regularly by theEuropean Central Bank (ECB). Significant institutions are directly supervised by the ECB using joint supervisory teams that involve thenational competent authorities (NCAs) of individual participating countries. Less significant institutions are supervised by the relevant NCA on a day-to-day basis, under the supervisory oversight of the ECB.[1] In Italy's case, the NCA is theBank of Italy.[2]
A study published in 2024 assessed that the bank with by far most aggregate assets in Italy (as opposed to total consolidated assets) as of end-2023 was Intesa Sanpaolo at €869 billion, followed by UniCredit (€274 billion), Banco BPM (€202 billion), the Iccrea Group (€175 billion),Crédit Agricole (€160 billion, viaCrédit Agricole Italia), BPER (€142 billion), Monte dei Paschi di Siena (€122 billion),BNP Paribas (€103 billion, viaBanca Nazionale del Lavoro), the Cassa Centrale group (€90 billion), Mediobanca (€84 billion), Banca Mediolanum (€78 billion), and Credito Emiliano (€68 billion).[4] Italy is also home to subsidiaries of three other euro-area significant institutions, namelyDeutsche Bank (viaDeutsche Bank SpA),Santander, andSociété Générale.[3]
39 Italian LSIs, all bearing the nameCassa Raiffeisen, were bound together with the Cassa Centrale Raiffeisen dell'Alto Adige (also known as Raiffeisen Landesbank Südtirol) into theinstitutional protection scheme (IPS) of theSouth Tyrolean Raiffeisen Group, one of six IPSs in the euro area.[5]: 12
As of 13 October 2025, the following banks established outside theEuropean Economic Area had branches in Italy ("third-country branches" in EU parlance):[7]
Palazzo San Giorgio in GenoaRialto Square in Venice, former seat of Banco della Piazza di Rialto and of Banco del GiroFormer seat of the Monte di Pietà di VicenzaPalazzo Donghi Ponti in Padua, former seat of Cassa di RisparmioPalazzo Maffei Marescotti in Rome, former seat of Banca RomanaPalazzo della Borsa in Florence, former seat of Banca Nazionale ToscanaFormer temporary seat of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Italy in Florence
Numerous former Italian banks, defined as having been headquartered in the present-day territory of Italy, are documented on Wikipedia in English. They are listed below in chronological order of establishment, divided into two categories depending on whether or not they qualified at some point as earlycentral banks and/orbanks of issue.[9] In mainstream narratives of thehistory of banking, Italy is widely viewed as the birthplace of modern European financial practices during theHigh Middle Ages andRenaissance, first in the form offamily banks and later through municipal public banks known asmount of piety. Moreover, many localsavings banks were established in the second and third quarters of the 19th century and, unlike in most other European countries, did not consolidate into a single national network.
Italian branch of AK Nordic AB
Italian branch ofBanca Transilvania SA
Banca Ubae SpA, majority-owned byLibyan Foreign Bank
Credit Suisse (Italy) SpA, subsidiary ofUBS
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