Banca Nazionale di Credito
{{short description|Former Italian bank}}
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{{Distinguish|Credito Italiano|Banca di Credito Italiano|Banque Nationale de Crédit}}
The Banca Nazionale di Credito (BNC, {{lit|National Credit Bank}}) was a significant bank in Italy during the 1920s. It was founded in 1922 to manage the liquidation of the Banca Italiana di Sconto (BIS), the country's third-largest bank that had failed the previous year.{{citation |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |title=Il progetto ufficiale di concordato della «Sconto» |url=https://www.luigieinaudi.it/doc/il-progetto-ufficiale-di-concordato-della-sconto/ |date={{date|1922/03/08}} }} In 1926, the Istituto Liquidazioni was established for the purpose of managing the legacies of failed banks,{{citation |url=http://www7.tau.ac.il/ojs/index.php/til/article/view/165 |title=Bank Nationalizations of the 1930s in Italy: The IRI Formula |journal=Theoretical Inquiries in Law |issue=13.2 |year=2012 |author=Costanza A. Russo}}{{rp|414}} and took over that activity from the BNC,{{citation |title=Donato Menichella: dal risanamento di banche e industrie allo sviluppo del Mezzogiorno |journal=Moneta e Credito |issue=LX:239 |date=September 2007 |pages=233-257 |url=https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/moneta_e_credito/article/download/10405/10292/13897 |author=Mario Sarcinelli}}{{rp|238}} which nevertheless continued operating as a major bank.
Future Bank of Italy governor {{ill|Donato Menichella|it}} worked at the BNC from 1924 to 1931.{{cite web |website=Banca d'Italia |title=Donato Menichella |url=https://www.bancaditalia.it/chi-siamo/storia/governatori-direttori-generali/governatori/donato-menichella/index.html }}
The BNC was still the country's third-largest bank in 1930, when it was purchased by Credito Italiano in what was then the largest-ever bank merger in Italy.{{cite web |website=UniCredit |url=https://www.unicreditgroup.eu/it/unicredit-at-a-glance/our-history.html |title=La nostra storia - I nostri momenti chiave: 1930}}