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Intesa Sanpaolo

Banking · Italy

Intesa Sanpaolo is Italy's largest bank: it lends to households and businesses through about 2,600 Italian branches and the digital bank Isybank, and earns a growing share of its income from managing €1.46 trillion of customers' savings, insurance and investments.

What makes it different

Earns more from managing savings than most banks.

€562BAssets under managementFY2025

It owns its fund manager, insurer and private bank, so fees on customer savings stay inside the group.

How big it is

How big is Intesa Sanpaolo?

€27.3BOperating incomeFY2025
€1.46TCustomer financial assetsFY2025
90,831EmployeesFY2025
How it makes money FY2025

Almost half from Italian retail banking.

  • Banca dei Territori46%€12.3B
  • IMI Corporate & Investment Banking18%€4.82B
  • Private Banking13%€3.44B
  • International Banks12%€3.26B
  • Other11%
How the business works

Bank Italy, then manage its savings.

  1. 1Italian household savings
  2. 2Own funds and insurance
  3. 3Households and businesses

Owning its own asset manager, insurer and private bank lets it keep the fees on €1.46 trillion of customer assets instead of sharing them.

Who owns it
  • Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo6.602%
  • Fondazione Cariplo (Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde)5.5%

CEO: Carlo Messina

Who it competes with
UUniCreditBNP ParibasSantanderBBanco BPMMMonte dei Paschi di Siena
Key moments
  1. 1998Banca Intesa formed
  2. 2007Intesa Sanpaolo created
  3. 2020Takes control of UBI Banca
  4. 2023Isybank digital bank launched
  5. 2026Offer for Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Sources

Every number on this page comes from Intesa Sanpaolo's own reports.

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What Intesa Sanpaolo tracks19 metrics
Retail customers, Banca dei Territori
Loans to customers
Branches
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from2 regions
Italy
Abroad (12 countries in Central-Eastern Europe, Egypt and elsewhere)
The full timeline15 moments
2017
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2026
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