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ntesa Sanpaolo has some of the most ancient roots in banking. It can ultimately trace its lineage back to 1563, to a brotherhood known as the Compagnia di San Paolo. Offering low interest rates – a boon for the poor and needy of early-modern Turin – it proved a handy alternative to usury. From there,


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technological dominance


Italian banks have traditionally been slower to go digital compared with their cousins north of the Alps, and nowhere is that truer than at Italy’s biggest financial institution, Intesa Sanpaolo. Andrea Valentino catches up with Massimo Proverbio, Intesa’s chief IT digital and innovation officer, to learn more about how his institution is on its way to becoming Italy’s most technologically advanced bank.


the burgeoning institutiton, now known as Monte di Pietà, would play an outsized role in the rise of Savoy as a serious European power, for example taking on the administration of the state’s public debt. More recently, however, the bank has transcended its base in Italy’s fertile and hilly northwest.


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