Klartecken för största bankfusionen i Italien på tio år

Banca Popolare di Milano known as Bipiemme or just BPM is an Italian cooperative bank based in Milan, Lombardy. About 62% of the branches were from Lombardy (410); the group also had branches in Emilia-Romagna (28), Lazio (65), Apulia (36), Piedmont (87), Liguria (11), Veneto (7), Tuscany (5), Campania (2), Marche (1), Molise (1), Abruzzo (1) and Friuli– Venezia Giulia (1). In 2016 it was announced that the bank would be merged with Banco Popolare.

Banco Popolare Società Cooperativa is an Italian bank, formed in 2007 from the merger of Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara (BPVN) and Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI). The bank was ranked fourth by total assets (among retail and commercial bank), according to Ricerche e Studi using 2014 data. The bank was a cooperative partnership. However, Italian Law N°3/2015 required all People's Bank (Banca Popolare) with total assets above €8 billion, had to transform into Società per Azioni (limited company). In 2016 it was announced that the bank would be merged with Banca Popolare di Milano. At the same time the new bank would be registered as S.p.A.. Banco Popolare is a component of FTSE MIB index of Borsa Italiana. (Italian stock exchange). The Group had branches in 19 out of 20 regions of Italy, except in Abruzzo (the subsidiary Banca Caripe was sold in 2011). Moreover, the bank was absent in several provinces of Italy, such as South Tyrol (the equity investment in Südtiroler Sparkasse was sold in 2007), and Province of Sondrio, Lombardy. Moreover, the bank only presented in 1 out of 8 provinces of Sardinia and 1 out of 5 province of Calabria (only in Reggio Calabria).