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Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3661918 ↗
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Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno known as Carisap, is a former Italian regional bank based in Ascoli Piceno, Marche. A subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo, the bank merged with another subsidiary of the group, Banca dell'Adriatico in 2013.

The former owner of the bank, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno (Fondazione Carisap), still operated as a charity organization. The foundation still held 0.3537% shares of Intesa Sanpaolo, as of 31 December 2013.

History

Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno was founded in Ascoli Piceno, Papal States in 1842, the bank became Società per azioni in 1992 due to Legge Amato. In the 1990s Cariplo acquired 25% shares of Carisap from Fondazione Carisap. Carisap followed the parent company Cariplo to merge with Banco Ambrosiano Veneto to form Banca Intesa on 1 January 1998, in July in of same year the group reached 66% ownership of the bank. In 2001, Ascoli became part of an intermediate holding company Holding IntesaBCI Centro, which already consists of 5 other saving banks (Italian: Cassa di Risparmio) who joined in 1999. In 2003, one more saving bank joined the mini-group. In 2007 Carisap followed the ultimate parent company Banca Intesa to become part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

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“Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cassa, Risparmio and Ascoli can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 1842, 1992, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1842. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cassa, Risparmio and Ascoli.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno” 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.