FinecoBank

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FinecoBank
Formerly
  • GI-FIN
  • Istituto per le Cessioni del Quinto
  • Novara ICQ
  • ICQ Banca Cisalpina
  • Fin-Eco Banca ICQ
Company type Listed
BIT:  FBK
FTSE MIB Component
Founded
1982(as GI-FIN)
1999(as Fineco)
Servicesonline brokerage

FinecoBank S.p.A., known as FinecoBank or just Fineco is an Italian bank that specializes in online brokerage. [1] Launched in 1999 with its Fineco Online service for retail traders, [2] Fineco became a listed company in 2014 and has been independent from UniCredit banking group since 2019. [3]

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FinecoBank is a constituent of FTSE MIB (since 2016), the blue chip index of the Borsa Italiana. [4] Since 2015 it has over a million customers in Italy, where its role has been compared to that of Schwab in USA. [2]

FinecoBank has been designated in 2021 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. [5]

History

Predecessors

The predecessor of Fineco was a financial institution known as GI-FIN S.r.l. in 1982 and then GI-FIN S.p.A. from October 1982. [6] In 1983, the institution was incorporated as Istituto per le Cessioni del Quinto S.p.A. (ICQ), [6] which later known as Novara ICQ S.p.A. [7] : 665  and then ICQ Banca Cisalpina S.p.A.. [6] [8] ICQ Banca Cisalpina was a subsidiary of Banca Popolare di Novara (BP Novara). [6] In 1990–91, BP Novara owned 51.21% shares of ICQ Banca Cisalpina. [7] : 665  [9] : 126  ICQ Banca Cisalpina was also a listed company, which was delisted in 1996 by its new owner Banca Popolare di Brescia (Bipop). [10] [11]

In 1999, Bipop merged with Cassa di Risparmio di Reggio Emilia (Carire) to form Bipop Carire. [6] As of 1990, Banca Popolare di Brescia also partially owned the namesakes Fin-Eco Leasing (33.33%) and Fin-Eco Factoring (30%). [9] : 125  As of 1994, Bipop owned the aforementioned companies via an intermediate holding company Fin-Eco Holding. [12] The Holding also owned another subsidiary Fin-Eco SIM. [12] Bipop also attempted to acquire another namesake Cisalpina Gestioni in 1994. [12]

After the 1999 merger, the banking group re-organized ICQ Banca Cisalpina as well as Fin-Eco Leasing and Fin-Eco Factoring. [13]

FinecoBank

ICQ Banca Cisalpina was renamed to "Fin-Eco Banca ICQ S.p.A." (Banca Fin-Eco in short) in 1999, [6] which was considered as the launch date of the current Fineco. [14] [15] In 2002, Bipop Carire and Fineco became part of Capitalia banking group. [16] In 2007, Capitalia was absorbed into UniCredit banking group, while Fineco was kept as a separate subsidiary.

In 2014 FinecoBank started its initial public offering. [14] In 2016 UniCredit sold a further 30% shares to public market. [17] [18] [19] In May 2019, UniCredit sold another 17% shares of FinecoBank. [1] As UniCredit owned 18% shares of FinecoBank after the transaction, FinecoBank is no longer an associate company of UniCredit. [20]

In 2020, Fineco decided to spend 7 million euros on a marketing campaign to grow its services in UK, [21] whose launch was authorised earlier in the same year. [22]

FinecoBank Banca Fineco serves customers in the United Kingdom and Italy. [23]

UniCredit sold its remaining stake in FinecoBank in 2019. [24]

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