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Fintech Nudging: A Push toward Financial Well-being
Fintech is revolutionizing the way the financial industry interfaces with clients and helps them reduce information barriers regarding their finances. A central role in this process is played by nudging logics, those systems of decision-making architecture that help orient decisions towards more virtuous behavior. The entire approach helps better satisfy the customers’ needs and increase loyalty. Digital ...
Whistleblowing: Healthy Businesses Thanks to Employees
The word “whistleblowing” identifies the action of reporting illegal, unethical or improper activities, or activities that can have a negative impact on employees or the company, whether public or private, in any sector. The introduction of whistleblowing in businesses marks a significant cultural change. Thanks to whistleblowing, companies can count on active help in the future from their employees, ...
Challenges and Solutions for the Banking Sector
The application of artificial intelligence solutions in the banking sector will have various consequences in terms of: creation of new economies and professions; increase of worker productivity; creation of new modes of working; and requalification of old abilities and skills of employees. The public and private stakeholders in the banking sector (including the European Commission) increasingly express ...
The derivative usage by listed and non-listed Italian Firms for corporate risk management
La scarsa trasparenza sull’uso dei derivati nei bilanci delle imprese è all’origine della scarsa conoscenza degli schemi di comportamento delle imprese per quanto riguarda l’impiego di tali strumenti. Questo articolo esamina le pratiche di gestione del rischio delle imprese italiane, sia quotate sia non quotate, per un’ampia varietà di rischi d’impresa: rischi di cambio, di tasso di interesse, ...
Open Banking: The Directive Exists, and Maybe The Consumers, Too
It is not infrequent for innovations or reforms that declare a precise and limited goal to have a more or less involuntary impact on much broader areas, causing radical changes. This is the case of the PSD2 (the Payment Services Directive, EU 2015/2366, adopted in Italy with Legislative Decree 218 of 2017), that from its title, seems to refer only to payment services, but has turned out to be the ...
One year on, the economic crisis and its impact on Italian banks and financial institutions
Il 21 ottobre l’associazione BOSS – nelle persone di Carlo Bosco, Marco Campo e Sabino Costanza –, Nomura Italia e l’Università Bocconi di Milano hanno organizzato una tavola rotonda dal titolo “One year on the economic crisis and its impact on Italian banks and financial institutions”.#Il tema della tavola rotonda era particolarmente delicato in considerazione del momento storico attraversato ...
Banking union and fiscal backstops
The banking union is an epochal institutional change, comparable in many respects to the introduction of the euro in 1999. Besides the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the banking union comprises a Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) with its Single Resolution Fund (SRF), and a harmonized system of deposit insurance schemes. The new institutional architecture is certainly an important step forward ...
The resurgence of M&A. Interview with Mr. Gregg Lemkau, Global Head M&A Goldman Sachs
Dear Mr. Lemkau, 2014 seems a very good year for M&A. Recent announced mega deals (see, for example, in the Cable TV, social media and pharmaceutical business) have opened the year in a risk on mood for corporations and investors. Can you please give us your point of view about the driving forces behind this renewed upward trend? We are certainly seeing a resurgence of M&A activity in ...
The double-edged sword of experience in strategic decisions. Evidence from the private equity sector
Research objective The overarching objective of my research is to contribute to our understanding of the positive and negative experiential learning factors linked to the development of organizational capabilities in strategic tasks. Experience is both an opportunity and a restriction – a resource and an obstacle for change, a space to explore and a prison. To gain insights into the puzzling ...
Essentials of Applied Portfolio Management
This book offers an essential introduction to modern portfolio theory. The book provides a number of simple, practical examples to allow the reader to apply the theoretical concepts presented in each chapter. A portion of such practical cases are worked out in Excel and made available through the book’s website. The book takes inspiration from Markowitz’s classical mean-variance, it then proceeds ...