Raiffeisen: angry population for closing 4 branches in the Three Valleys

It was a rumor, but today the confirmation came: the next 25 November Raiffeisen will close four of its ten branches in the Three Valleys, Acquarossa, Giornico, Piotta and Pollegio.

The other six locations – Airolo, Faido, Olivone, Malvaglia and Biasca Lodrino – instead remain open and enhanced by the banking group. The reorganization will not lead to job cuts.

In an interview with the Bellinzona's newspaper The Region, the mayor of Quinto, Valerio Jermini expressed his discontent: "It isn't in this way that you relaunch the suburbs,". "This decision marks a move away from the people by bank: now it behaves like the big institutions, beyond proclamations. While we try in every way to keep the families here in the valley".

"The latest demonstration of the penalization of the suburbs", John Mercoli, Mayor of Pollegio said and added that was not reached any alarm bells. From Acquarossa finally Odis Barbara De Leoni talks of "shameful betrayal".

The director of Raiffeisen Bank Three Valleys, Carlo Barbieri, instead tried to justify the decision with the evolution of the banking system: "The numbers speak for themselves and we must align ourselves to the group's strategy, is tough but it is so," said Barbieri, the who recalls that Raiffeisen still remains "the institution with the greatest number of branch, in Ticino and Switzerland."