Italian Bank/Post office Account

The Italian banks offer current accounts, current accounts and savings books as well as joint accounts for couples (co-registered current account). Each bank may offer special conditions for students. In general, there are no fees for cash withdrawals from your bank’s ATM and payments at shops within the country. These services are also provided by online accounts, such as prepaid card or IBAN account card (prepaid cards usually have lower monthly fees than traditional current accounts).

Non-EU Students are invited to open an Italian/European account in order to receive their scholarship as sometimes foreign accounts may delay or have problems if they do not have some necessary fields to be filled e.g. BIC/SWIFT code. Instead, if you are an EU Student or have a European IBAN it is not necessary to you to open an account in Italy in order to receive the scholarship.

Bank accounts can be opened in Italy by both residents and non-residents from 18 years of age, going to the branch or proceeding directly online. We suggest you to ask the bank about the possible options and, before deciding, always verify the conditions (i.e. fees for operations, etc.). On the School webpage at the link here, you can find some banks that offer special deals to the IMT members.

• Passport;
• Tax Identification Number (Codice Fiscale)
• Stay Permit or postal office receipts testifyng your Stay permit application
• Attendance certificate released by the Phd and Higher Education Office 

To open a postal office account, you can do so online via the website or the Poste Italiane App, or by going to one of the post offices. If you want to open a postal account, you must provide the following documents:

• Passport
• Tax Identification Number
• Stay permit or postal office receipts testifying your stay permit application