Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane

ICBPI
Native name
 Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane
private Società per Azioni
Headquarters
  • 18 Corso Europa, Milan, Italy (nominal)
  • 57 Corso Sempione, Milan, Italy
  • 110/D via Chianesi, Rome, Italy[1]
Increase €96.350 million (2014)
Total assets Decrease €8.036 billion (2014)
Total equity Increase €927.757 million (2014)
Owner
Mercury UK Holdco(89.07%)
Banco BPM(2.5%)
Credito Valtellinese(2.0%)
Banca Popolare di Sondrio(2.0%)
BPER Banca(1.5%)
others
Parent Mercury UK Holdco Limited
Subsidiaries
CartaSi(94.38%)
Unicard(94.38%)
Oasi-Diagram(100%)
Help Line(70%)
Capital ratio 13.25% (CET1)[2]
Website icbpi.it

Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane S.p.A. (ICBPI) is an Italian bank that was specialize as a central institution of Italian People's Bank. (Italian: Banca Popolare). The bank now specialize in payment system such as CartaSi.

History

ICBPI was found by Banca Popolare di Cremona, Intra, Lecco, Lodi, Luino e Varese and Verona in 1939.[3]

In 2015 the bank was acquired by a consortium of Bain Capital, Advent International and Clessidra SGR, which the investment managers incorporated a SPV "Mercury Bondco plc" to issue notes to raise debt, in order to lend to sister companies: Mercury A Capital Limited, Mercury B Capital Limited and Mercury ABC Capital Limited, the parent companies of Mercury UK Holdco Limited, which in turn the parent company of ICBPI.[4]

In February 2017 ICPBI acquired the card business of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena for €520 million.[5]

Shareholders

Before Mercury

Credito Valtellinese (Creval) was the largest shareholders of the bank for 20.387% as at 1 January 2015.[6]

On 18 December 2015, the shares held by Creval (18.39%), Banco Popolare (13.88%), Banca Popolare di Vicenza (9.99%), Veneto Banca (9.99%), Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna (9.14%), ICCREA Holding (7.42%), Banca Popolare di Cividale (4.44%), UBI Banca (4.04%), Banca Popolare di Milano (4.00%), Banca Carige (2.20%), Banca Sella Holding (1.80%) and some minor banks,[nb 1] were sold to an intermediate holding company Mercury Italy S.r.l..[7] (an investment vehicle indirectly owned by funds advised by Bain Capital, Advent International and Clessidra SGR)[8] On 29 December 2016, Mercury Italy was merged with ICBPI, which Mercury UK Holdco Limited (parent of Mercury Italy) became the new parent company of the bank.[4]

After Mercury

After the sales in December 2015, Creval retained 1.9989% as the second largest shareholders, followed by Banca Popolare di Sondrio which did not sell (1.9973%). Creval, Banco Popolare (1.5%), Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna (1.5%), Banca Popolare di Milano (BPM, 1.0%), UBI Banca (1.0%), Banca Popolare di Cividale (0.7%), ICCREA Holding (0.5%), Banca Sella Holding (0.2%) retained about 8.4% shares.[8]

Other than BP Sondrio, only 5 more banks did not sell the shares: Banca Popolare di Bari (0.1081%), Cassa di Sovvenzioni e Risparmio fra il Personale della Banca d'Italia (0.0121%), Banca Popolare del Frusinate (0.0014%), Banca Popolare Vesuviana (0.0011%) and Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara (Carife, 0.0009%).[9]

Since the merger of Banco Popolare and BPM on 1 January 2017, Banco BPM became the second largest shareholder of ICBPI. As BPER Banca (ex-Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna) also acquired Carife, making the shareholders base of ICBPI was further reduced to 13 entities.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ namely: Banca Popolare Pugliese, Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa, People's Bank of South Tyrol (and ex-Banca Popolare di Marostica), Banca Popolare dell'Etruria e del Lazio, Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata, Banca di Piacenza, Cassa di Risparmio di San Miniato, Banca Popolare del Lazio, San Felice 1893 Banca Popolare, Banca di Credito Popolare di Torre del Greco, Banca Popolare di Cortona, Banca Valsabbina, Banca Popolare di Fondi, Banca Popolare Valconca, Banca Popolare di Spoleto, Banca Popolare del Cassinate, Associazione Nazionale fra le Banche Popolari, Unione Fiduciaria, Banca Popolare di Lajatico, Italfondiario, Banca Popolare Lecchese, Credito Siciliano and Banca Popolare Sant'Angelo

References

  1. ↑ "Come contattarci" (in Italian). ICBPI. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "2014 Relazioni e Bilancio" (PDF) (in Italian). ICBPI. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "La Storia" [The Story] (in Italian). Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI). c. 2004. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 http://www.mercurybond.com/about-us/
  5. ↑ "BMPS sells its merchant acquiring business to ICBPI for a consideration of Euro 520 million" (in Italian). Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "COMPOSIZIONE CAPITALE SOCIALE ICBPI AL 1 GENNAIO 2015" (PDF) (in Italian). ICBPI. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "89% del Capitale Sociale di ICBPI passa a Mercury Italy S.r.l." (in Italian). ICBPI. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  8. 1 2 "DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE MAJORITY SHARE CAPITAL OF ISTITUTO CENTRALE DELLE BANCHE POPOLARI ITALIANE" (PDF). Credito Valtellinese. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "COMPOSIZIONE CAPITALE SOCIALE ICBPI AL 18 Dicembre 2015" (PDF) (in Italian). ICBPI. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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