Shareholders

Banca Akros is the Corporate & Investment Bank of the Gruppo Banco BPM. Present on the market for over twenty years, Banca Akros is today among the most active players in the panorama of Italian investment banks.

The history of Banca Akros has its origins in Akros Finanziaria, later Akros Attimo SIM. Banca Akros was established in 1997 as a result of the transformation of the SIM into a Credit Company specialized in operations with institutional counterparties, enterprises and individuals whose needs did not find appropriate answers in the offer of commercial banks. In 1998 Banca Akros became part of the Gruppo Banca Popolare di Milano and from January 2017, following the merger between the Gruppo Banca Popolare di Milano and the Gruppo Banco Popolare, it is part of the Gruppo Banco BPM, the third largest banking group in Italy.

Since its inception, Banca Akros has defined its identity and its business model through a high degree of specialization in the characteristic areas of its business, developing singular skills in fields such as Global Markets, Investment Banking, Brokerage and in the structuring of OTC products and securitized, both for investment and hedging purposes.

Banca Akros displays its skills at the service of corporate customers and institutional investors, supporting them with an offer of specific financial services, aimed at satisfying the most different and complex necessity in terms of financial risk management, as well as in relation to issues relating to growth, transformation and international projection of the business.

In addition, Banca Akros boasts a recognized leadership in market making activity on the main fixed income and equity markets, both cash and derivatives, as well as in financial research and analysis.

Offering reliable financial services and instruments logical with the needs of customers: this is Banca Akros' philosophy

Banca Sella Holding Spa is the parent company of the Gruppo Sella. It has full legal continuity with Banca Sella Spa, founded in 1886, and it is the company of the Gruop that that develpes all the activities concerning access to markets, interbank relations, trading of financial instruments, funding on the markets, treasury and all activities related to finance and payment systems.

The history. Quintino Sella (1827-1884), Minister of Finace in Italy during the Risorgimento and member of a family of entrepreneurs and innovators active since the XVI century in the textile sector in the Biella area, is considered the inspirer of the idea of founding an institute of credit. On 23 August 1886 "Gaudenzio Sella & C." was established and Gaudenzio Sella (1860-1934), Quintino’s nephew, headed the bank for the first 50 years. The Limited Liability Partnership created in 1886 was transformed into a Limted Partnership in 1937. In 1949 the bank became a Joint Stock Company. In 1992 the Gruppo Banca Sella was born. Today, 123 years after the foundation, the Gruppo Sella, still controlled by the heirs of the founders, keeps the characteristics of indipendence and entrepreneurship that inspired its birth.

Principles and values. The Gruppo Sella is a private and indipendent Group hat aims to work in the interest of the customer by applying principles of transparency, quality, professionalism and experience. The Gruppo Sella is an articulated reality made up of many companies operating in different geographic areas and offering a wide range of banking and financial products and services. This multifunctionality makes it possible to reconcile the quality of specialization and local roots with the desire to offer a global service which, starting from the needs of each individual interlocutor, is able to provide "tailor-made" answers. Realizing the financial well-being of customers is our task, through a prudent management of their resources and the provision of credit, starting from their needs to translate them into effective solutions.

Iccrea Banca is The Istituto Centrale del Credito Cooperativo (Central Institute of Cooperative Credit), whose statutory purpose is to "make the activities of the Banche di Credito Cooperativo (BCC Cooperative Credit Banks) more complete, intense and effective, supporting and enhancing their action by carrying out credit functions, technical intermediation and financial assistance in all forms... ". To this end, in favor of the Banche di Credito Cooperativo, in order to enhance their action on domestic markets, it develops a series of functions that for technical, organizational, economic or regulatory reasons, individual companies could not activate independently. In exercising its role, the Institute provides competitive banking supports and products / services through a central and peripheral structure. Iccrea Banca is a part of the Gruppo Bancario Iccrea, of which Iccrea Holding is the Parent Company which holds 99,179% of the share capital, while the remainder is divided between Cassa Centrale delle Casse Trentine (0,819%) and the Federazione Lombarda delle BCC (0,002%).

“Luigi Luzzatti S.C.p.A.” is a joint stock consortium company entirely owned by Cooperative Banks (Banche popolari).

The founding Members are Banca Popolare di Bari, Banca Agricola Popolare, Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata, Banca Valsabbina, Banca Popolare di Cividale, Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Banca Popolare Pugliese, Banca di Piacenza, Banca Popolare del Cassinate, Banca Popolare del Frusinate, Banca di Credito Popolare, Banca Popolare del Lazio, Sanfelice 1893 Banca Popolare, Banca Popolare Valconca, Banca Popolare di Lajatico, Banca Popolare di Fondi, Banca Popolare di Cortona.

The company deals with the management of operations relating to the acquisition of shareholdings in financial and banking companies and other activities of common interest to cooperative and local banks in order to achieve and develop appropriate economies of scale.

The Cooperative Banks shareholders operate in the territories for a total assets of approximately 270 billion euros and 264 billion in funding through a network of over 5,200 branches