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Green Finance and Sustainable Regeneration
Sustainable finance aims to create long-term value by directing capital during both the design and the management phases of urban regeneration projects. Through stakeholder-centric financial intermediaries, such as banks and new operators, and through new investment instruments (green, social, and sustainability bonds), the regeneration of entire dilapidated or abandoned areas generates considerable ...
Make Way for Proptech as a Lever for Growth
The application of technological solutions and instruments for innovation of processes, products, and services is influencing the entire real estate sector. This affects not only sales, but many phases of the overall value chain. This is why proptech is exploding at the global level, driven by the United States and followed by China and Europe. The ubiquity of applications of technology to real estate ...
New Housing Needs and Market Responses
The platform economy is deeply modifying the entire real estate sector. Driven by demand whose protagonists have changed, the digitalization of the sector has imposed a new conception of the process of sale, in which online and offline experiences increasingly go together. Important evolutions have taken place during the phase of purchase and valuation of an apartment, with services increasingly attentive ...
New Social Needs at the Center of Living
The evolution of the living sector must start from an analysis of new social needs, due to four main trends: climate change, demographic changes, new forms of social interaction, and datification. From the exacerbation of environmental conditions to the new living needs for an aging population, from the need to design and create new spaces to deal with the increasingly inevitable waves of pandemics ...
The Virtuous Circle of Sustainability
The issue of sustainability in real estate is on everyone’s lips, but there is still much uncertainty about how ESG criteria can be applied and how their value can be measured. The only belief shared by all stakeholders is that sustainability should be a key element of any urban regeneration project; because it is only by respecting and integrating environmental and social dimensions into business ...
Positive Effects on Performance, Both Direct and Indirect
We decided to explore the role of governance for the sustainable growth of Italian businesses in various forms, thanks to the database of our Business Observatory, which encompasses the population of medium and large enterprises under family, state, coalition, and financial control (approximately 6,150) with a turnover exceeding 50 million euros (Figure 1). Figure 1 The ownership structure of the ...
Growing to Preserve Italian Excellences: The Role of Investors
The value of the Italian system Italy is a country with numerous excellent products that stand out for creativity, design, innovation, and the quality of its products and services. These are recognized and admired excellences worldwide, the result of the vision of great entrepreneurs, a culture of work, the pursuit of beauty, and a continuous exploration in inventing valuable products, passed ...
Compliance Issues are Relevant Factors for Strategic Decision-Making
By characterizing choices around (good) governance as a strategic factor for the company, it follows that even compliance-related issues, when evaluated in terms of their impact on governance, can influence decision-making and capture the attention of top management. In fact, the need for compliance can dictate the timing, shifting the axis of priorities and accelerating internal decision-making processes. ...
Specialized and Fast. The Secrets of the Success of Italian SPACs on the Stock Exchange
SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) are corporate vehicles containing only cash, established by the initiative of founding members (known as sponsors) to raise financial resources through a listing on regulated stock markets (Initial Public Offering, IPO) (Conca, 2021). The capital raised through the IPO is used to select and acquire an operating company (target), not known beforehand, within ...
The Failure of FTX and the Future of Cryptocurrencies
Critical aspects of the crypto world Crises are a structural element of financial markets, and despite everything done to prevent them, they will continue to occur. In fact, financial innovation not only fails to prevent crises but sometimes even plays a leading role in them. At the core of these crises, there are typically three phenomena that often occur simultaneously: ...