is an Italian cooperative bank based in Altamura, in the province of Bari, Apulia region.

However, they were located mainly in Southern Italy: 75 in Apulia (covered all 6 provinces), 14 in Campania, 10 in Basilicata, 4 in Abruzzo and 3 in Molise (0 in Calabria and the two islands); in central Italy 9 in Lazio, 4 in Marche and 2 in Emilia-Romagna (Ravenna and Rimini; 0 in Tuscany and Umbria regions); in northern Italy, 1 in Friuli – Venezia Giulia (in Pordenone), 4 in Veneto, 9 in Lombardy and 2 in Piedmont (in Biella and Vercelli).

Banca Popolare di Puglia e Basilicata was formed by several mergers of cooperative banks from southern Italy.

In the same year the bank also acquired Banca Popolare della Provincia di Foggia.

In 2002 the bank acquired 10 branches of Capitalia from Apulia, Campania and Molise regions.