Banca Popolare di Verona
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The "Banca Popolare di Verona" is an Italian bank
Bank
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, part of the "Banco Popolare
Banco Popolare
Banco Popolare is an Italian cooperative bank, formed in 2007 from the merger of Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara and Banca Popolare Italiana . In June 2009 the company became the first Italian bank to receive state aid from the Government of Italy due to the ongoing financial crisis. It sold...

" Group, based in Verona
Verona
Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, North Italy
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The original name of "Banca Popolare di Verona" was "Banca Mutua Popolare di Verona", founded on 21 June 1867.
It was the seventh Italian "popular" bank to be founded. (The meaning of "popular" is that every shareholder who has more than 150 shares can vote during the shareholders' meeting.)

It was the first Italian bank that acquired another Italian bank (Banco S.Geminiano e S.Prospero di Modena) by a public takeover
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 in 1993 and the name of the bank changed to "Banca Popolare di Verona - Banco S. Geminiano e S. Prospero".

In 1997 the bank acquired "Credito Bergamasco"; on 1 June 2002 it merged with "Banca Popolare di Novara" and "Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara" was born.

In 2007 "Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara" merged with "Banca Popolare Italiana" and "Banco Popolare" was born.

Today it is quoted on the Milan
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 S&P/MIB
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 Stock Exchange
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