Italian banks should redefine their strategies strengthening the role of business models in order to be more innovative and competitive in the actual scenario

The recent ABI Report on the labour market in the financial industry shows that in Europe large banks have faced the need to cut the cost income ratio, aiming to reduce the branch network and distribution costs. In human resources management, the crisis has brought about a redefinition of...

Italian banks profitability represents a focal point both for top management and supervisory authorities. It is strongly necessary to focus on: global revenues, assets composition and pricing policies; managing actively credit risk, rationalizing operating costs. Objectives can be achieved...

In this article we analyze the turnover dynamics of Ceos before and after the company Ipo. Ceo turnover depends on a number of factors, related to company, personal career and traits. The empirical analysis conducted on the non-financial Italian companies listed on the Borsa Italiana in the...

The development of a long lasting relationship between banks and firms requires greater cooperation between the two parties, which must be based on transparency, availability of the right quantitative and qualitative information, the correct and complete use of these information by banks, in...

To estimate the probability of default of companies and the correlated rating classes, it is necessary to use efficiently the information contained in different databases. In this respect, we propose a novel approach, based on the recursive usage of Bayes theorem, that can be very helpful in...

The crisis has strongly influenced the funding policies in Italian banks, pushing them to raise their stock of time deposits, an attractive product for retail customers in terms of low issuer risk and no market risk

Establishing a European Banking Union offers clear opportunities: to break bank-fiscal interactions, national supervisory silos and home biases, to reduce fragmentation and improve single market, to stabilize the euro. Nonetheless it involves also risks related to the crisis management...

The proposal for a Directive and the related impact study presented by Ec in 2012 have the purpose to reorganize the financial systems crisis regulation, with particular emphasis on bank recovery and resolution. The new harmonized rules identify three groups of measures relating to prevention,...

Networks development and technological innovation are the challenges that the interbank payment system will face to ensure efficiency and reliability to the operations involving businesses, citizens and public administrations. In Italy, as part of efforts to implement the Digital Agenda, is...