Integration process was concluded in 2008, BNL with its group oversees the commercial banking activity in Italy.

It was re-privatized and listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1998, before being acquired by French banking group BNP Paribas in 2006.

Many of the loans that the branch made were guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation program.

[4] At the year end of 2004 the major shareholders with more than 2% were:[5] 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.