The South Tyrolean Raiffeisen Group is a cooperative banking group in the bilingual South Tyrol autonomous province of Italy, headquartered in Bolzano.
Made principally of 39 autonomous local cooperative banks, the group is integrated via an institutional protection scheme (IPS) managed by its member entities' umbrella association, the Raiffeisenverband Südtirol – Federazione Cooperative Raiffeisen. It also relies on a central financing entity, Raiffeisen Landesbank Südtirol – Cassa Centrale Raiffeisen dell'Alto Adige.
As of end-2024, the South Tyrolean Raiffeisen IPS had aggregate assets of €18.8 billion,[2] whereas the central Landesbank had assets of €3.7 billion.[3]
Overview
The Italian Raiffeisen group's oldest constituent bank was founded in Val Badia (Gadertal) in 1889, under Austrian law. In the 1890s, a central organization was founded in Innsbruck, serving all the local Raiffeisen banks in both North and South Tyrol. The group's organisation was disrupted when the region was absorbed by Italy in the immediate aftermath of World War I.[4]