title: Banking foundation
text: # Banking foundation
  
  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
  
  * 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
  