Banca Nazionale del Lavoro













































Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.p.A.
Type

  • subsidiary

  • Società per Azioni
Industry
Banking
Financial services
Founded 1913; 105 years ago (1913) (as Istituto Nazionale di Credito per la Cooperazione)
Headquarters
Via Vittorio Veneto 119, Rome, Italy
Area served
 Italy
Key people
 Luigi Abete (Chairman)
Andrea Munari (CEO)
Number of employees
 19,000 (2014)
Parent BNP Paribas
Website BNL.it

Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.p.A. (BNL) is an Italian bank headquartered in Rome. It is Italy's sixth largest bank[1] and has been a subsidiary of BNP Paribas since 2006.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Scandals


  • 3 Ownership


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





History






Founded in 1913 as Istituto Nazionale di Credito per la Cooperazione, it was nationalized in 1929. It was re-privatized and listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1998, before being acquired by French banking group BNP Paribas in 2006.


Banca Nazionale del Lavoro began Argentine operations in 1960, ultimately opening 91 branches, before selling its operation there to HSBC Bank Argentina in 2006.[citation needed]



Scandals


The bank was involved in a major political scandal (dubbed Iraqgate by the media) when it was revealed in 1989 that the Atlanta, Georgia branch of the bank was making unauthorized loans of more than US$4.5 billion to Iraq. Many of the loans that the branch made were guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation program. The loans were originally intended to finance agricultural exports to Iraq, but were diverted by Iraq to buy weapons. The branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, indicated that the bank's headquarters office was aware of these loans, but senior bank official denied this. Drogoul pleaded guilty to three felony charges and served 33 months in federal prison.[2]



Ownership


At the year end of 2004 the major shareholders with more than 2% were [3]




  1. BBVA 14.75190%


  2. Assicurazioni Generali 8.71980%


  3. Diego Della Valle (Dorint Holding S.A.) 4.99436%


  4. Stefano Ricucci Trust (Magiste International S.A.) 4.98985%


  5. Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone 4.96904%


  6. Danilo Coppola (PACOP SpA) 4.92611%


  7. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena 4.41788%


  8. Giuseppe Statuto (Michele Amari Srl) 4.09248%


  9. Banca Popolare di Vicenza 3.63682%


  10. Vito Bonsignore (Gefip Holding SpA) 3.07572%


After a short period of Unipol minority ownership as well as the exposed bancopoli scandal, BNP Paribas signed an agreement with 13 shareholders of BNL, representing 48% shares of BNL on 6 February 2006. BNP Paribas also made offer to buy all the remain shares from the public and delisted the company from Borsa Italiana.[4] MPS sold the shares to Deutsche Bank instead.[5]



See also



  • Bancopoli

  • Saving and loan scandal

  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International



References





  1. ^ http://www.bnlpositivity.it/en/azienda/bnp-paribas.html


  2. ^ "Lone Wolf Or a Pack of Lies?". TIME Magazine. 26 October 1992. Retrieved 8 May 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ 2004 bilancio (in Italian)


  4. ^ 2005 Annual report BNP Paribas


  5. ^ "Investor relations" (PDF). www.mps.it. Retrieved 13 April 2018.




External links




  • Official website (in Italian)

  • Transcript of U.S. Rep. Henry Gonzalez hearing on BNL connection to purchase of dual use equipment by Saddam Hussein










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