Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde

Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde, known in shorthand as Cariplo SpA, was an Italian bank founded in 1823.

Cariplo SpA became a short-lived sub-holding company of Intesa in late 1990s, and was fully absorbed circa 2000.

The bank was formed on 12 June 1823 by the count Giovanni Pietro Porro, in Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, decades before the unification of Italy.

"Nord", a joint venture of the owners of Alessandria, Carrara and Spezia and Cariplo)[3] as well as Calabria e Lucania (Carical), Puglia (Caripuglia),[4] Salernitana (Carisal) (the formation of Banca Carime).

In 1997 Fondazione Cariplo and Cariverona agreed a deal on Banco Ambrosiano Veneto's shares,[5] which led to the ultimate merger on 2 January 1998.

Palazzo delle Colonne , expansion of the Ca' de Sass completed in 1941 on a design by Giovanni Muzio and Giovanni Greppi