Support for the economy  The presence of a varied range of intermediaries constitutes an asset for the Italian banking system and has proven invaluable for the country’s economic growth.
In particular, thanks to the social and solidaristic concerns inherent in their corporate model, Italy’s cooperative banks not only assist categories of customers at risk of exclusion from the credit market and thus vulnerable to usury, but have also actively sustained specific segments of the market, such as small and medium-sized enterprises.