This book provides a detailed analysis of the main innovations and impacts associated with the package of European legislation comprising MiFID II and MiFIR, which constitutes a pillar of the EU’s “single rulebook” for financial regulation. Adopting a research-oriented approach, the...

Attributing ratings to the top-20 owners, we construct a Risk-Weighted Ownership index (RWO) to measure the profitability and risk-taking behaviour of the ownership structure at banks. Collecting data from 19 European countries plus the UK over the 2008-2017 period, preliminary results show...

This paper investigates how banks react to digital transformation outsourcing innovative activities. We provide evidence on the drivers of investment in FinTech firms (FCTs) made up by banks especially in terms of deal and investors characteristics. We also asses the grade of the investment...

In this paper, we propose a measure of the risk appetite of a bank's ownership structure and investigate whether ownership risk propensity is correlated with performance and default risk. Our indicator, the Risk-Weighted Ownership (RWO), assumes that credit risk is a proxy for the risk appetite...