Banca Popolare di Milano

Banca Popolare di Milano is an Italian cooperative bank.

History

The second cooperative bank in Italy (the first one was the Banca Popolare di Lodi), it was founded in 1865 in Milan by Luigi Luzzatti, who later served as the nation's Prime Minister. Luzzatti drew his inspiration from the 'credit associations' developed by Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch in Germany a decade earlier.^[2]

BPM has grown considerably since the 1950s by buying interests in other banks such as Banca Popolare di Roma, la Banca Briantea, Banca Agricola Milanese, Banca Popolare Cooperativa Vogherese, Banca Popolare di Bologna e Ferrara, Banca Popolare di Apricena, Ina Banca, Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria and Banca di Legnano.

BPM Today

BPM now employs about 9,000 people in 792 branches and it has about 1,4 million customers^[3]. The bank works basically in the northern and central regions of Italy, with a strong presence in Lombardia and Piemonte, but also in Lazio and Puglia. In 1999 Banca Popolare di Milano opened the online banking service called WeBank, become a bank apart in 2009.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Annual Report 2010". Banca Popolare di Milano. http://www.bpm.it/bilanci/pdf/2010_bilancio_consolidato_eng.pdf. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
2. ^ Henry W. Wolff. People's Banks. P.S. King & Son, London, 1910, pp. 254-319.
3. ^ 8,378 employees, 702 branches and 1,430,100 customers, source: "Bilancio sociale del gruppo Bipiemme" ("Social Balance of Bipiemme Group") 2005

External links

• Official website