'''Banking foundation''' is a type of foundation that originated as a bank. The banking reforms split the banks (usually local and community owned savings banks, as a statutory corporation) into limited company and holding company (or banking foundation).

==Austria== * ERSTE Foundation

==Germany== * {{ill|Haspa Finanzholding|de}} - parent of Hamburger Sparkasse

==Italy== *Fondazione di Sardegna * Members of Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio S.p.A. * Fondazione Pisa * Fondazione Roma *Fondazione Sicilcassa (defunct) *Fondazione Banca Monte Lugo (merged with other foundations) *Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lugo (merged with other foundations) *Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

==Norway== * Sparebankstiftelsen DnB

==San Marino== *Fondazione San Marino

== Spain ==

* La Caixa

==Further reading== * {{cite web|url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2014/wp14181.pdf|title= Reforming the Corporate Governance of Italian Banks |first= Nadège|last=Jassaud |date=25 September 2014 |access-date=21 April 2016|type=working paper}}

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