The financial wealth of Italian households has crossed the 6 trillion euro threshold for the first time. Total savings held in financial instruments from 2024 to the present - including current accounts, securities, stocks, mutual funds and insurance - reached €6,030 billion, an increase of more than €249 billion compared to 2023, representing a 4.3% growth. Looking at the change from the “pre-pandemic” period, that is, from 2019, a 29.3% increase is recorded in the total amount of household piggy banks. This is according to a study by the Autonomous Federation of Italian Bankers. For Federation Secretary General Lando Maria Sileoni, "Italian household savings continue to represent a backbone of our economic and financial system, a social anchor that requires ever greater attention and protection. Over €6 trillion are kept and invested, the fruit of the industriousness, prudence and sense of responsibility of millions of citizens. This is an enormous patrimony, which must be protected by all means and which requires serious reflection on the part of politics, institutions and the banking sector: because savings cannot be left to itself or abandoned to speculative logic. It is necessary that these savings be put to use to support the real economy, to finance innovation, to give businesses breathing space and create new jobs”.