The survey, coordinated by the Risk Analysis and Risk Management office of ABI, was carried out in autumn 2011 and analysed the state of the Compliance function in 40 Italian banks of various sizes. The survey covered subjects such as the reporting lines of the compliance function to top...

During the crisis the financial system experienced a concentration process driven by new M&A released by both big and medium banks. The article evaluates the role of banking features and regulatory framework in explaining the probability to be a target firm in a domestic or cross border M&A....

Corporate relationship banking in Italy is investigated through an empirical analysis centered on seven banking groups of different sizes. It highlights the new strategic phase of corporate banking after the crisis, in particular with regard to the adoption of more selective credit lending...

Reputational risk represents a very serious potential threat to banks of all types regardless of size, and therefore requires a strong presidium by the Compliance function to monitor and control the risk. The article describes the links between reputational risk and liquidity risk, suggests a...

The cooperative credit system in Europe has been affected to a lesser extent by the crisis than other banks: cooperative banks have maintained a good quality of loans and a low pro-cyclicality of credit supply. The paper aims to investigate, in the years 2007-2009, the influence of some features...

The last two years have stressed how special and important banks are. When the financial system fails, the whole economic system is affected. The financial sector has undergone an unprecedented wave of innovation, change, consolidation and now crisis. We now have a better understanding of the...