With much of its activity tied to property development, it collapsed in the severe Italian banking crisis of the early 1890s, and was placed into liquidation in 1895.

[1] In the 1860s, Swiss banker Ulrich Geisser and Giacomo Servadio built a network of companies that became centered on the Banca Italo-Germanica, which they established in 1871.

[3] It soon involved itself in ambitious urban development projects, particularly in Turin, Rome, and Naples.

[4] In 1884, it purchased the historic Palazzo Strozzi on the northern side of Largo di Torre Argentina, and made it its Roman seat in 1886 following extensive renovation.

[5] With the property downturn of the late 1880s, the bank obtained a credit line of 10 million lire, guaranteed by property assets, from the National Bank of the Kingdom of Italy, but that was not enough to ensure its viability.