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Banca Nazionale di Credito

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The Banca Nazionale di Credito (BNC, lit.'National Credit Bank') was a significant bank in Italy during the 1920s. It was founded in 1922 to manage the liquidation of the Banca Italiana di Sconto (BIS), the country's third-largest bank that had failed the previous year.[1] In 1926, the Istituto Liquidazioni was established for the purpose of managing the legacies of failed banks,[2]: 414  and took over that activity from the BNC,[3]: 238  which nevertheless continued operating as a major bank.

Future Bank of Italy governor Donato Menichella [it] worked at the BNC from 1924 to 1931.[4]

The BNC was still the country's third-largest bank in 1930, when it was purchased by Credito Italiano in what was then the largest-ever bank merger in Italy.[5]

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  1. ^ "Il progetto ufficiale di concordato della «Sconto»", Corriere della Sera, 8 March 1922
  2. ^ Costanza A. Russo (2012), "Bank Nationalizations of the 1930s in Italy: The IRI Formula", Theoretical Inquiries in Law (13.2)
  3. ^ Mario Sarcinelli (September 2007), "Donato Menichella: dal risanamento di banche e industrie allo sviluppo del Mezzogiorno", Moneta e Credito (LX:239): 233–257
  4. ^ "Donato Menichella". Banca d'Italia.
  5. ^ "La nostra storia - I nostri momenti chiave: 1930". UniCredit.