Gruppo Cassa Centrale Banca is an Italian cooperative banking group based in Trento. As of 2025-5-1, it brought together 65 local credit unions ( or BCCs),[4] the main one being the Banca per il Trentino Alto Adige – Bank für Trentino-Südtirol that was formed on 2024-1-1 by agglomeration of various local cooperative banks of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol autonomous region.[5]
The group's central entity, Cassa Centrale Banca - Credito Cooperativo Italiano (CCB), has been designated in 2019 as a Significant Institution under the criteria of European Banking Supervision, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.[4]
History
Gruppo Cassa Centrale Banca originates in the agricultural cooperative movements of the 19th century pioneered in Germany by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The first Raiffeisen-like cooperative on Italian soil was established in 1883 as the Cassa Rurale a Loreggia in the province of Padua, at the initiative of economist and politician Leone Wollemborg