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
Industry Financial services
Founded
1982(as GI-FIN)
1999(as Fineco)
Headquarters Milan, Italy
Key people
  • Alessandro Foti
    (CEO and General Manager)
  • Paolo Di Grazia
    (Deputy General Manager and Head of Global Business)
  • Fabio Milanesi
    (Deputy General manager and Head of It Operations, Customer Care)
  • Mauro Albanese
    (Deputy General Manager and Head of Network PFA & Private Banking)
Servicesonline brokerage
RevenueIncrease2.svg €1.238 [1] million  (2023)
Increase2.svg €609 [1] million  (2023)
Number of employees
1.384 [1]  (2023)
Website finecobank.com

FinecoBank S.p.A., known as FinecoBank or just Fineco is an Italian bank that specializes in online brokerage. [2] Launched in 1999 with its Fineco Online service for retail traders, [3] Fineco became a listed company in 2014 and has been independent from UniCredit banking group since 2019. [4]

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FinecoBank is a constituent of FTSE MIB (since 2016), the blue chip index of the Borsa Italiana. [5] Since 2015 it has over a million customers in Italy, where its role has been compared to that of Schwab in USA. [3]

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. [6]

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. [7] In 1983, the institution was incorporated as Istituto per le Cessioni del Quinto S.p.A. (ICQ), [7] which later known as Novara ICQ S.p.A. [8] : 665  and then ICQ Banca Cisalpina S.p.A.. [7] [9] ICQ Banca Cisalpina was a subsidiary of Banca Popolare di Novara (BP Novara). [7] In 1990–91, BP Novara owned 51.21% shares of ICQ Banca Cisalpina. [8] : 665  [10] : 126  ICQ Banca Cisalpina was also a listed company, which was delisted in 1996 by its new owner Banca Popolare di Brescia (Bipop). [11] [12]

In 1999, Bipop merged with Cassa di Risparmio di Reggio Emilia (Carire) to form Bipop Carire. [7] As of 1990, Banca Popolare di Brescia also partially owned the namesakes Fin-Eco Leasing (33.33%) and Fin-Eco Factoring (30%). [10] : 125  As of 1994, Bipop owned the aforementioned companies via an intermediate holding company Fin-Eco Holding. [13] The Holding also owned another subsidiary Fin-Eco SIM. [13] Bipop also attempted to acquire another namesake Cisalpina Gestioni in 1994. [13]

After the 1999 merger, the banking group re-organized ICQ Banca Cisalpina as well as Fin-Eco Leasing and Fin-Eco Factoring. [14]

FinecoBank

ICQ Banca Cisalpina was renamed to "Fin-Eco Banca ICQ S.p.A." (Banca Fin-Eco in short) in 1999, [7] which was considered as the launch date of the current Fineco. [15] [16] In 2002, Bipop Carire and Fineco became part of Capitalia banking group. [17] 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. [15] In 2016 UniCredit sold a further 30% shares to public market. [18] [19] [20] In May 2019, UniCredit sold another 17% shares of FinecoBank. [2] As UniCredit owned 18% shares of FinecoBank after the transaction, FinecoBank is no longer an associate company of UniCredit. [21]

In 2020, Fineco decided to spend 7 million euros on a marketing campaign to grow its services in UK, [22] whose launch was authorised earlier in the same year. [23]

FinecoBank Banca Fineco serves customers in the United Kingdom and Italy. [24]

UniCredit sold its remaining stake in FinecoBank in 2019. [25]

Shareholders

As of 2024 [26]
ShareholderStake (% of ordinary shares)
BlackRock, Inc. 9.19%
Schroders plc 5.06%
Capital Research and Management Company 5.04%
Wellington Management Group LLP 5.02%
FMR LLC4.46%

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Account and Reports 2023" (PDF). Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 Za, Valentina; Aloisi, Silvia (7 May 2019). Potter, Mark; Merriman, Jane (eds.). "UniCredit sells 17 percent stake in online broker FinecoBank". Reuters. Additional reporting by Helen Reid. Milan. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. 1 2 Maximilian Cellino (8 May 2019). "Fineco, come guadagna la banca online venduta da UniCredit". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (FBK : BIT) Stock Price & News - Google Finance". www.google.com. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "Fineco Bank - London South East". www.lse.co.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "List of supervised entities" (PDF). European Central Bank. 1 January 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "La fase iniziale". Prospetto [Prospectus](PDF) (in Italian). FinecoBank. 2014. p. 114.
  8. 1 2 Whiteside, R. M.; Wilson, A.; Blackburn, S.; Hörnig, S. E.; Wilson, C. P. (1991). "Major Companies of Italy". In Whiteside, R. M.; Wilson, A.; Blackburn, S.; Hörnig, S. E.; Wilson, C. P. (eds.). Major Companies of Europe 1991-1992 Vol.1 : Major Companies of the Continental European Community. London: Graham & Trotman (Kluwer Academic Publishers Group). pp. 651–750. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-3016-5_7. ISBN   978-1-85333-598-3.
  9. ↑ "FinecoBank". Forbes. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  10. 1 2 Whiteside, R. M.; Forsyth, J.; Wilson, A. (1990). "Major Companies of Italy". In Whiteside, R. M.; Forsyth, J.; Wilson, A. (eds.). Major Financial Institutions of Continental Europe 1990/91. London: Graham & Trotman (Kluwer Academic Publishers Group). pp. 121–140. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-3022-6_9. ISBN   978-1-85333-471-9.
  11. ↑ "COMPANIES DELISTED FROM JANUARY 1995 TO 31 AUGUST 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). Borsa Italiana. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  12. ↑ "POP. BRESCIA: NULLA OSTA CONSOB AD OPA ICQ CISALPINA" (in Italian). Rome. Adnkronos. 7 October 1996. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  13. 1 2 3 "Provvedimento №2179 (C1536): Banca Popolare di Brescia / Cisalpina Gestioni" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Competition Authority (AGCM). 25 July 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  14. ↑ "eco+bank". library.answerthepublic.net. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  15. 1 2 Bray, Chad (27 June 2014). "UniCredit's Online Unit Raises at Least $916 Million in I.P.O." "Dealbook" section. The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2019. The company, founded in 1999,...
  16. ↑ "About Fineco". Fineco Bank. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  17. ↑ Bilancio al 31 dicembre 2002 [2002 Annual Report](PDF) (in Italian). Capitalia. 2003. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2019– via Borsa Italiana.
  18. ↑ "Unicredit vende il 10 per cento di FinecoBank. Incasso da 328 milioni di euro". La Repubblica. Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso. 12 July 2016. ISSN   2499-0817 . Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  19. ↑ "UniCredit launches placement of ordinary shares in FinecoBank S.p.A. representing 20% of the Company's existing share capital" (Press release). UniCredit. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  20. ↑ Written at Milan. "Unicredit cede il 20% di Fineco, ma il mercato non brinda". La Repubblica. Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso. 13 October 2016. ISSN   2499-0817 . Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  21. ↑ "UniCredit announces FinecoBank is not anymore part of the Group starting today" (Press release). UniCredit. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  22. ↑ Eleonora Micheli (9 November 2020). "Fineco, Foti: «2020 un anno di successo. Distribuiremo cedole appena possibile»". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  23. ↑ Eleonora Micheli (11 February 2020). "Fineco prepara lo sbarco in Gran Bretagna ed esclude M&A". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  24. ↑ "FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  25. ↑ "UniCredit successfully completes the sale of its remaining stake in FinecoBank". UniCredit. 8 July 2019.
  26. ↑ "FinecoBank". borsaitaliana.it. borsaitaliana.it. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
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