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title: "Bank of Italy scrutinises smaller banks' funding from online deposit platforms"
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description: "The Bank of Italy is increasing scrutiny on smaller banks' reliance on funding from online deposit platforms, which allow for cross-border retail deposits. Following the March 2023 banking turmoil, concerns have risen regarding the liquidity risks associated with these digital deposits, particularly for smaller banks that lack diverse funding sources. As of December 2025, 30 Italian Less Significant Institutions (LSIs) had raised 11.5 billion euros through these platforms, accounting for 10% of their total funding. The Bank of Italy warns that such deposits are volatile and pose higher risks of money laundering and terrorism financing."
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# Bank of Italy scrutinises smaller banks' funding from online deposit platforms

MILAN, April 29 : Smaller Italian banks have increased reliance on funding they raise abroad through online deposit platforms, the Bank of Italy said on Wednesday, as regulators step up monitoring of the practice. Online deposits allow banks to raise retail deposits digitally, often on a cross‑border basis, by giving savers access to deposit accounts offered by multiple banks through a single interface. The March 2023 banking turmoil, where rapid online deposit outflows led to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in the United States, has increased supervisory concerns about lenders' reliance on deposits that customers can withdraw with a click. After studies found that digital deposits can accelerate outflows at times of stress, regulators are checking whether they are adequately monitoring and measuring lenders' liquidity risks from their increased use of digital funding channels, the Bank of Italy said in its latest Financial Stability Report. Such risk could be higher still for smaller banks which traditionally rely on a narrower pool of funding sources. These Less Significant Institutions are not under direct ECB oversight but are supervised through the Bank of Italy. The Bank of Italy said it had calculated that in December 2025 that a group of 30 Italian LSIs had 11.5 billion euros in funds raised through online deposit platforms, or 10 per cent of their overall funding. The top five LSIs accounted for three quarters of the sum, it added. While acknowledging that online deposit platforms allowed Italian lenders to tap the European retail deposit market, the Bank of Italy warned these deposits are more volatile, in the absence of an established client relationship, and carried higher risks in terms of money laundering or terrorism financing.

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