Gruppo Cassa Centrale Banca
Central Institute of the cooperative banks of Trentino
Gruppo Cassa Centrale Banca is an Italian cooperative banking group based in Trento. As of 1 May 2025, it brought together 65 local credit unions (Italian: Banche di Credito Cooperativo or BCCs), the main one being the Banca per il Trentino Alto Adige – Bank für Trentino-Südtirol that was formed on 1 January 2024 by agglomeration of various local cooperative banks of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol autonomous region.
The group's central entity, Cassa Centrale Banca - Credito Cooperativo Italiano (CCB), has been designated in 2019 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.
History
Gruppo Cassa Centrale Banca originates in the agricultural cooperative movements of the 19th century pioneered in Germany by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The first Raiffeisen-like cooperative on Italian soil was established in 1883 as the Cassa Rurale a Loreggia in the province of Padua, at the initiative of economist and politician Leone Wollemborg. In 1887, the Federazione delle Casse Rurali was established as a national umbrella group by 51 rural cooperative banks (Italian: casse rurali). The Italian cooperative credit movement was further stimulated in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII's publication of his landmark encyclical Rerum novarum, after which many Catholic figures and organizations were active in it. The legal entity now known as Banca per il Trentino-Alto Adige was founded in Trento on 27 January 1898.
In 1974, Cassa Centrale delle Casse Rurali Trentine was established by the BCCs of the Trentino region. It was renamed Cassa Centrale delle Casse Rurali Trentine e delle Banche di Credito Cooperativo del Nord Est in 2002, then Cassa Centrale Banca - Credito Cooperativo del Nord Est in 2007 (abbreviated as CCB) as the group gradually expanded its geographical footprint.
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