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Banca Esperia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ25066873 ↗
Source-derived summary

Banca Esperia S.p.A. was an Italian bank which was a joint venture of Mediobanca and Banca Mediolanum (before 2015: Mediolanum S.p.A.).

In 2017, Mediobanca acquired the 50% stake owned by Banca Mediolanum laying the foundations for the launch of Mediobanca Private Banking (thanks to the subsequent merger by incorporation of Banca Esperia within Mediobanca).

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Banca, Esperia and Open-knowledge.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25066873. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Banca Esperia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.