Sanpaolo IMI
Public | |
Industry | Bank, Insurance |
Fate | In 2007, merged with Banca Intesa to form Intesa Sanpaolo |
Founded | 1563 as Compagnia di San Paolo |
Headquarters | Turin, Italy |
Key people |
Alfonso Iozzo, CEO Enrico Salza, Chairman |
Revenue | € 9.726 bn (2004) |
Number of employees | 44,000 (2006) |
Website | Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI |
The Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI was one of Italy's major banking and insurance groups, based in Turin. It employed about 44,000 people and had about 7 million customers.
On August 24, 2006 a merger with Banca Intesa was announced, which on 1 December 2006 was approved by the joint meetings of the shareholders of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. On 2 January 2007 the merger went into effect, thereby creating Intesa Sanpaolo, now the largest Italian bank and one of the largest in the Eurozone.
The new banking company based in Turin and is administered under the "two-tier model", with the presence of a Supervisory Board and a Board of Management. This was the first application of this model in a major Italian company.
History
Sanpaolo IMI was formed by many merger of banks, which in 1998 Istituto San Paolo di Torino merged with Istituto Mobiliare Italiano. In 2002, the group merged with Cardine Banca, a short lived holding company that consist of Carisbo, Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, Banca Popolare dell'Adriatico.
Activities
Sanpaolo IMI had about 3,200 local offices where private, business and retail banking activities take place. It also managed savings and retirement funds.
Management
The last CEO of Sanpaolo IMI was Alfonso Iozzo, the last president was Enrico Salza.
Subsidiaries
Before the merger the following banks were the subsidiaries of the group:
- Banca dell'Adriatico
- Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto
- Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia
- Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna
- Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì e della Romagna
- Neos Finance
- Banco di Napoli
- Banca IMI
Ownership
Before the merger, on 31 December 2005 the shareholder were (ordinate and preference shares):
- Compagnia di San Paolo 14.22%
- Banco Santander 8.44%
- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo 7.04%
- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna 5.55%
- Giovanni Agnelli e C. 4.97%
- Assicurazioni Generali 2.00%
- Mediobanca 1.75%
- Morgan Stanley 1.75%
- Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena 1.51%
- Reale Mutua di Assicurazioni 1.50%
- Groupe Caisse d'Épargne 1.50%
- Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze 1.50%
- Fondazione di Venezia 1.47%