Native name | Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata S.C.p.A. |
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| Formerly | Banca Popolare della Murgia |
| Company type | Società Cooperativa per Azioni |
| Industry | Financial services |
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| Founded |
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| Headquarters | 13 Via O. Serena,, Italy |
Number of locations | 137 branches (2014) |
Area served | 12 regions of Italy; mainly in Apulia |
| Services | Retail banking |
 (€2,490,450) (2014) | |
| Total assets |  €4,312,275,995 (2014) |
| Total equity | €317,376,347 (2014) |
| Capital ratio | 10.82% (CET1) |
| Website | Official website (in Italian) |
| Footnotes / references source[1] | |
Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata S.C.p.A. is an Italiancooperative bank based inAltamura, in theprovince of Bari,Apulia region.
The bank had 137 branches, covering 12 out of 20 regions of Italy. However, they were located mainly in Southern Italy: 75 in Apulia (covered all 6 provinces), 14 in Campania, 10 in Basilicata, 4 in Abruzzo and 3 in Molise (0 in Calabria and the two islands); in central Italy 9 in Lazio, 4 in Marche and 2 in Emilia-Romagna (Ravenna and Rimini; 0 in Tuscany and Umbria regions); in northern Italy, 1 in Friuli – Venezia Giulia (in Pordenone), 4 in Veneto, 9 in Lombardy and 2 in Piedmont (in Biella and Vercelli).
Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata was formed by several mergers of cooperative banks from southern Italy.
Banca Popolare della Murgia was formed in 1972 by the merger ofBanca Cooperativa Agraria di Gravina (found 1883) andBanca Mutua Popolare Cooperativa di Altamura (found 1888). In 1994 the bank absorbedCassa Rurale e Artigiana dell'Icona di Tursi, a bank from nearby Basilicata region.[2]
In 1995 Banca Popolare della Murgia absorbedBanca Popolare di Taranto (found 1889) to formBanca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata. In the same year the bank also acquiredBanca Popolare della Provincia di Foggia.[3] From 1996 to 2001 the bank also absorbedBanca di Credito Cooperativo dell'Alto Bradano di Banzi,Banca di Credito Cooperativo Vulture Vitalba di Atella and some business units ofBanca di Credito Cooperativo degli Ulivi – Terra di Bari andBanca di Credito Cooperativo di Corleto Perticara. In 2002 the bank acquired 10 branches ofCapitalia from Apulia, Campania and Molise regions.[2]
