The last years have witnessed a wide reshaping of the banking scene. According to researchers and authorities, the aftermath of these developments include an increased risk of demarketing of the conventional banking system towards certain customer segmentations and marginal areas and activities....

Many changes occurred in the last years in the economic and social framework make this question quite actual. This special issue argues that the new reality created by the great financial crisis has fostered cooperative banks’ development — at least at local level — and allowed them to...

The last years have witnessed a wide reshaping of the banking scene. According to researchers and authorities, the aftermath of these developments include an increased risk of demarketing of the conventional banking system towards certain customer segmentations and marginal areas and activities....

The last years have witnessed a wide reshaping of the banking scene, the aftermath of which includes an increased risk of operative downsizing of the banking system towards certain customer segmentations, marginal areas and activities. Recently the banking scene has deteriorated, especially at...

Credit is indubitably one of the most important sectors in which the supply of goods and services by cooperatives has arisen. Given the importance of the role of cooperative banks in the development of other sectors and of the territories or communities in which they operate, and the economic...

Uno dei settori più rilevanti dove si è affermata l’offerta cooperativa è senza dubbio quello del credito. Se consideriamo l’importanza del suo ruolo, per lo sviluppo degli altri settori e dei territori e delle comunità ove opera, ed il potere economico e politico che di conseguenza esso...

"The substantial rise of world prices of agricultural products due to a host of mutually supporting factors that influenced both their supply and demand between 2005 and the first half of 2008 led to a subsequent increase in the price of food at the retail level. Although this trend has reversed...