The proper functioning of the board of directors plays a crucial role for the management of listed banks: a system of checks and balances can help to reduce the risk of uncontrolled growth. The board performance self-evaluation can improve corporate governance, as confirmed by the...

Since the beginning of the financial crisis, multinational banks have been accused of being among the major causes of the financial system’s destabilization. But the available empirical evidence on the relationship between international diversification, value creation and riskiness of...

The new Italian rules concerning the traceability of financial transactions in the public sector are designed to improve the exchange of information in order to prevent criminal infiltration in public contracts.They have many practical implications for operators involved, including banks

The credibility of prudential metrics as proxies for risk, i.e. the backbone of the Basel capital framework, is often called into question. From a regulatory side, ongoing works aim at strengthening the risk-sensitivity of capital requirements but, at the same time, banks’ autonomy is often...

Supervisory fragmentation is a cause of systemic risk, as cooperation amongst national authorities is bound to fail in crisis events. The situation will be different under the Banking Union when the Single Supervisory Mechanism is in place even if it shows some weaknesses: the Ssm includes...

The major Italian banking groups have adopted over the past 5 years the figure of the Chief Risk Officer, with an Area that includes the functions of Risk Management and Compliance. The solutions adopted meet the requirements set out in the regulation for the prudential supervision of banks: the...

The Social Disclosure (Sd), in general, expressed through corporate social reporting can sometimes be reflected only in a series of fulfillment. In this perspective, the research aims to verify, with reference to Cooperative Credit Banks (Bcc) in Italy, if the intensity of Sd is actually...

Turbulence and global economy’s fragility are increasing the propagation of stresses and traumas in interconnected systems. The Too-big-Too-Fail concept, however, is now becoming less significant and a new idea – Too-Complex-To- Survive – is gaining popularity. Since excessive complexity...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the role that non-financial variables can play in assessing Smes creditworthiness and to compare their value in predicting business failure with the one of the most commonly used financial ratios. We investigate the importance for banks in modeling credit...