Veneto Banca
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Veneto Banca S.p.A. is a former Italian bank headquartered in Montebelluna, Italy and currently a wind-down unit.
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Company type | unlisted public Società per Azioni | ||
Industry | Financial services | ||
Founded | 1877 | ||
Defunct | 23 June 2017; 7 years ago (2017-06-23) | ||
Fate | bankruptcy, compulsory liquidation | ||
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Headquarters | , Italy | ||
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Services | Retail and corporate banking | ||
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Number of employees | 5,703 (2015 average) | ||
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Rating | Moody's | ||
Website | gruppovenetobanca.it | ||
Footnotes / references in consolidated financial statements[1] |
The bank changed from a cooperative society to a limited company in December 2015. Following a failed stock market listing in June 2016 it was taken over by a bail-out fund, Atlante.[2] However, after a heavy loan write-down in the 2016 financial year, as well as a scandal on selling own new shares to depositors in the past, European Central Bank announced the bank was insolvent on 23 June 2017, and would be broken up (wound up) into a good and a bad bank. Intesa Sanpaolo, the largest bank of Italy by capitalization, announced that it would be interested in buying certain good assets (and corresponding liabilities) of the bank for a token fee.[3] A contract to acquire the "good bank" (excluding Banca Intermobiliare) was signed on 26 June, after the European Commission approved the state aid of Italy to Intesa Sanpaolo for increasing the capital ratio of the "good bank" on 25 June.[4]
According to a research by Ricerche e Studi, the bank was ranked 16th by total assets, using 2015 data.[5] The bank was one of the fourteen largest banks of Italy, which were supervised by the European Central Bank directly.