Iccrea, in the three-year period 2,500 hires and 1,800 exits
The group presented the new plan to the trade unions, which includes a major generational change and investments of EUR 340m for technological development and the integration of artificial intelligence
The Iccrea cooperative banking group, with the important reserves given by the net profit of 1.9 billion euro in 2025, is preparing for a three-year plan for 2026-2028 with 340 million euro in investments for technological development and artificial intelligence, new financing for 52 billion euro, and an important generational change. The plan that was presented yesterday to the trade unions envisages a generational changeover where, against 1,800 exits, 2,500 new hires are expected, with a positive balance of 700 new hires that could also increase in relation to positive developments over the plan period.
In the sector, Iccrea is the largest group with 22,500 employed bankers, two-thirds of the total Bcc where about 36,500 people work, and has a very important weight at the Federcasse negotiating table. Cooperative credit is experiencing a double season. On the one hand, as Fabi's national secretary, Luca Bertinotti, explains, 'it has launched the work sites for the drafting of the claim platform for the renewal of the national collective contract which expired on 31 December 2025, and on the other, in the meantime, it is developing the negotiating profiles on the second level contract still to be defined in the coming months. In the meantime, the industrial and equity consolidation of the Iccrea Group, confirmed by the improvement in plan targets, makes it necessary to advance collective and individual staff protection with particular attention to staffing, workloads, commercial pressures, training and redistribution of the value produced'.
For First Cisl, the national secretary Domenico Iodice, adds that 'the Bcc Iccrea group with the new plan proposes ambitious objectives, but they require, for its implementation, the strategic participation of workers' representatives in line with cooperative values'. For the national secretary of Uilca, Giuseppe Del Vecchio, 'the Iccrea business plan clearly and positively highlights the choice to strengthen the group's position in the Italia banking system, through significant investments and a strategy aimed at supporting families, businesses and local communities. If Credito Cooperativo is healthy, we owe it to the commitment and professionalism lavished in recent years by its workers'.
