Cassa di Risparmio di Verona, Vicenza, Belluno e Ancona known as Cariverona in short, was an Italian savings bank headquartered in Verona. In 1991, due to Legge Amato (), the bank was split into two organizations,Cassa di Risparmio di Verona, Vicenza, Belluno e Ancona S.p.A. (trading as Cariverona Banca) and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Verona, Vicenza, Belluno e Ancona. They joined Unicredito banking group as founding subsidiary and shareholder respectively. The banking foundation was a minority shareholder of the successor of the banking group UniCredit.

Monte di Pietà di Verona is a mount of piety (Italian: monte di pietà) founded in 1490, by the Franciscan Michele da Acqui in the Republic of Venice, 28 years after the first recorded mount of Italy was founded in Perugia, by other Franciscans, Bernardine of Feltre and Michele Carcano, in the Papal States. The mount was later known as Monte di Credito su Pegno di Verona since 1930s. Despite as the founder of the saving banks of Verona, the mount and the bank became separate entities until 1947, which the mount was merged back to the savings bank. The building of the mount located on 1 Piazzetta Monte was used as the headquarters of the banking foundation of the saving bank in from 1993 to 1999.

Civica Cassa di Risparmio di Verona was founded in 1825 in Verona in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia of the Austrian Empire as a division of the local mount of piety. In 1892, the bank was independent from the mount of piety. The mount was merged with Cariverona in 1947.

Cassa di Risparmio di Verona merged with other banks in Veneto region in 1927–28, due to a decree-law to consolidate savings banks that were too small. (law no.2587 of 1927) It was renamed to Cassa di Risparmio di Verona e Vicenza in 1927 and Cassa di Risparmio di Verona, Vicenza e Belluno in 1939. Notable entities that were absorbed in 1927–28, were Cassa di Risparmio di Vicenza (founded in 1822), Cassa di Risparmio di Legnago (founded in 1893; merged in 1927), Cassa di Risparmio di Bassano del Grappa (founded in 1912; merged in 1928), Banca del Monte di Feltre, and Cassa di Risparmio di Cologna Veneta, all from the provinces of Verona, Vicenza and Belluno, as well as either mount of piety and/or savings bank origins; Monte di Credito su Pegno di Belluno was absorbed by Cariverona in 1948, followed by the counterpart in Bassano del Grappa in 1955. In 1946, the assets and liabilities of a rural credit union, Cassa Rurale e Artigiana di Isola Rizza, was also acquired by the bank.

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