Banca Caripe

Banca Caripe S.p.A. is an Italian regional bank based in Pescara, Abruzzo. There were 13 branches of the bank outside the Province of Pescara in Abruzzo and Marche regions, out of 48 total.

History

Cassa di Risparmio e di Credito Agrario di Loreto Aprutino was found in Loreto Aprutino, Kingdom of Italy in 1871. In 1936 the bank was renamed into Cassa di Risparmio della provincia di Pescara sede in Loreto Aprutino. In 1992, due to Legge Amato, the bank was split into Cassa di Risparmio di Pescara e Loreto Aprutino S.p.A. (private limited company) as well as Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pescara e di Loreto Aprutino (the bank foundation; Fondazione Pescara Abruzzo). Cariplo was a minority shareholders of the bank for 20%. In 2000 Banca Intesa sold 20% back to the bank foundation. On 16 February 2001, the bank was renamed to Banca Caripe S.p.A.. In the same year Bipielle Group (aka Banca Popolare di Lodi; BPL), through direct and indirect ownership: Istituto di Credito delle Casse di Risparmio Italiane (ICCRI), bought 30% shares of the bank. In 2003 the group was increased to own 51% shares through Reti Bancarie. In 2006 Reti Bancarie was absorbed into BPL. BPL owned 51% shares directly as well as the foundation had a put option to sell 44% shares to BPL. On 1 January 2011 the bank was sold to Banca Tercas for €228 million. On 31 December 2011, the bank had a shareholders equity of €112,542,054. However, from 2012 to 30 September 2014, the bank group was under administration. In 2014 both banks were acquired by Banca Popolare di Bari.

Caripe

Caripe is a town in Caripe Municipality in the mountainous north of the state of Monagas in eastern Venezuela. The official name of the town is Caripe del Guácharo 'Caripe of the Oilbird'. The name makes reference to a colony of nocturnal birds which lives in a nearby cave, the Cueva del Guácharo, where Alexander von Humboldt studied them in 1799 during his Latin American Expedition.

At the time of Humboldt's visit Caripe was the home of a Capuchin mission. The name of the town is doubtless originally from the Carib language. It was said that there was a chief named Caripe, whose son, named Caripito ('little Caripe') went down the Caripe river towards its confluence with the Río San Juan (which empties into the Golfo de Paria near the Orinoco River delta) and founded the town of Caripito in the lowlands. It is not clear how much history lies behind the legend.

The climate of the area is exceptionally pleasant, a result of its altitude (much of it 1000 m. [3000 ft.] and higher), latitude (about 10° N), and proximity to the Caribbean Sea. The mountains of the Cordillera de Caripe (Caripe Range) are relatively low, compared to the Andes in the west of Venezuela, with Cerro Turumiquire (sometimes spelt and presumably then pronounced as Turimiquire) the highest at 2595 m., followed by Cerro Negro at 2430 m. They are rounded mountains, covered with lush vegetation, like the Appalachian mountains in the United States; the limestone scenery reminded Alexander von Humboldt of Derbyshire in England which has similar limestone geology.