Talk:Banco di Napoli

False claim that it was founded in 1539

Banco di Napoli was one of many banks which dubiously claimed to have a much longer history than it really had, based on some alleged/dubious loose connection to companies of times past. (In some cases, modern banks founded in the late 20th century have claimed to be identical with banks that became defunct many centuries earlier).

http://www.group.intesasanpaolo.com/scriptIsir0/si09/chi_siamo/eng_banco_napoli.jsp#/chi_siamo/eng_banco_napoli.jsp is published by the company that bought this bank and is not an independent reliable source. However, it is quite telling; a different institution, called Monte di Pietà, was founded in 1539. And then a number of other, entirely separate institutions were opened. And some centuries later, a new institution, named Banco delle Due Sicilie, had to perform the same functions as the banks that had been closed.

It was only in 1861 the bank Banco di Napoli came into existence. The insistence that it was "founded in 1539" is an outright falsification of history. If a guy sells hamburgers in my neighbourhood from 1985 to 2003, then dies, and I set up shop somewhere else in the neighbourhood to sell hamburgers in 2015, my company was not founded in 1985. There is no legal continuity between his company and the company I established in 2015.

This is a horribly written and seemingly very outdated article, considering that its former official website bancodinapoli.it now redirects to the website of Intesa Sanpaolo, which makes absolutely no mention of Banco di Napoli there. --Vanasan (talk) 20:43, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

If 1539 as mount of piety is false, than BMPS should also not using the claim as the oldest surviving bank in Europe.

And here is the about us regarding the former corporate body of the bank. Matthew_hk tc 21:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

While I haven't looked into BMPS's history in detail, the article on BMPS says it has operated without interruption and judging by its article it seems to have a more direct continuity. --Vanasan (talk) 19:12, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

BMPS was also a merger of many banks, and technically Tuscany was not part of Italy until unification, so if BMPS was claimed "without interruption", so did Banco di Napoli, just changes in government. Matthew_hk tc 06:38, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

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