Capitalia was an Italian banking group headquartered in

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. The bank was a listed company in Borsa Italiana (Milan Stock Exchange). The bank was acquired by UniCredit by issuing new shares of UniCredit for shares of Capitalia.

History

Capitalia was formed on 1 July 2002 in a merger of

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(and its subsidiary

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and

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) and

Bipop Carire Bipop Carire S.p.A. was an Italian banking group based in Brescia, Lombardy. The group became part of Capitalia in 2002. Capitalia itself became part of UniCredit in 2007, which the brand Bipop Carire was absorbed into UniCredit in 2008. Bipop Cari ...

(and its subsidiary Fineco). In the same year the bank sold 10 branches from Apulia, Campania and Molise regions to

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. Capitalia in turn agreed to be taken over by

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in May 2007, becoming part of the second-largest bank in the

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by stock market value and the sixth-largest in the world.

Merger with UniCredit

In May 2007, plans were finalized for the buyout of Capitalia by its larger Italian rival,

. All banks of the Capitalia group in Northern Italy will be reconfigured as UniCredit banks; in turn, all Unicredit banks in the rest of Italy will be reconfigured as either

banks (rest of mainland Italy and Sardinia) or as

banks (in Sicily only).

Group members

* retail banks: **

FinecoBank FinecoBank S.p.A., known as FinecoBank or just Fineco is an Italian bank that specializes in online brokerage. Launched in 1999 with its Fineco Online service for retail traders, Fineco became a listed company in 2014 and has been independent fro ...

(99.99% stake) * Commercial, investment and merchant banks: ** Capitalia Merchant S.p.A. ** Capitalia Partecipazioni S.p.A. ** Capitalia Sofipa SGR S.p.A. (ex-MCC Sofipa SGR) ** Capitalia Asset Management SGR S.p.A. ** Capitalia Investimenti Alternativi SGR S.p.A. (95% stake, other 5% FinecoBank) ** Capitalia Luxembourg S.A. (99.99% stake, ex-Banca di Roma International) ** Eurofinance 2000 ** FinecoLeasing S.p.A. (99.99% stake) ** Fineco Finance Limited ** Fineco Mutui S.p.A. (subsidiary of FinecoBank) ** Fineco Verwaltung ** Fondi Immobiliari Italiani SGR (51.55% stake) ** IRFIS – Mediocredito della Sicilia (subsidiary of Banco di Sicilia for 76.25% stake) ** Immobiliari Piemonte (subsidiary of MCC) **

* common service companies: ** Capitalia Informatica S.p.A. ** Capitalia Service JV S.r.l. ** Capitalia Solutions (51% stake) ---- * minority interests ** Fineco Assicurazioni S.p.A. (49% stake) ** CNP Capitalia Vita S.p.A. (16.92% stake by Capitalia, 21.88% stake by Fineco Verwaltung) ** Italpetroli (49% stake via Banca di Roma) *** Roma 2000 (via Italpetroli) ****

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(via Roma 2000)

Shareholders

*shareholders with >2% stake #

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(8.59%) # Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Roma (5.02%) #

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(4.13%) # Fondiaria-Sai Group (3.51%) # Sicily Region (2.84%) # Fondazione Banco di Sicilia (2.73%) # Libyan Foreign Bank (2.58%) #

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(2.35%) # Tosinvest (2.10%)

References

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* Defunct banks of Italy Italian companies established in 2002 Banks established in 2002 Italian companies disestablished in 2007 Banks disestablished in 2007 UniCredit Group Capitalia Group {{Italy-bank-stub