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Pandemic and Insolvency Law: the Italian Answer

The Italian Government, similarly to others, has enacted several measures aimed at curbing the potentially devastating economic effects of the COVID19 pandemic. The lockdown designed to limit contagion has paralyzed...

14 May 2020

Daniele Vattermoli

The New Italian Corporate Governance Code—a Step Forward for a More Sustainable and Proportional Corporate Governance Model

In January 2020, the Italian Corporate Governance Committee released the new edition of the Corporate Governance Code. The Committee’s overall review followed such an innovative approach with regard...

24 April 2020

Marcello Bianchi

Mateja Milič

The Ridiculous Drama in Rome Over Proposals to Reform the ESM Treaty

As of this writing in December 2019, a remarkable debate over sovereign debt contract clauses is going on in Rome, in the Italian parliament (see here and ...

Reprofiling Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow: A Unilateral Italian Debt Restructuring

Italy has €2.4 trillion of debt. Should it ever find itself in pressing need of restructuring it, traditional avenues for sovereign restructurings could not be used because of a number...

Italy’s new Insolvency Code

On January 10, 2019, the Italian Government enacted the Business Distress and Insolvency Code (the Code). The Code was drafted taking into account the then existing draft of...

16 July 2019

Carlo de Vito Piscicelli

Francesco Iodice

Personal Attitudes and Financial Behaviours of Italian Financial Decision Makers: Evidence from the 2018 CONSOB Report

In this post, we provide an overview of the main findings of the latest Report from the Italian financial regulator, CONSOB, on Italian households’ financial choices.The 2018 edition of CONSOB’s...

Financial Education challenges

Several countries around the world have implemented or are in the course of implementing a national strategy for financial education, aimed at raising citizens’ financial competencies. As pointed out by...

1 December 2017

Nadia Linciano

Paola Soccorso

Why Taxpayer-funded Bail-out rather than a Bail-in may be in the Public Interest: Proportionality and the Limits of Bank Resolution in the Light of Recent Developments in Italy

It may sound odd that a taxpayer-funded bank bail-out should be in the public interest, whereas formal bank resolution – which transfers the losses exclusively to bank owners and bank...

28 July 2017

Jens-Hinrich Binder

New Bank Resolution Regime as an Engine of EU Integration

Introduction On 1 June 2017 the European Commission and Italy reached an agreement ‘in principle’ on the recapitalization of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS). A mere week later,...

14 June 2017

Matthias Haentjens

2016 Consob Report on Corporate Governance of Italian Listed Companies

At the end of 2015, data on control models and the ownership structure of Italian listed firms show persisting high ownership concentration and limited contestability of control. Moreover, the vast...

Pandemic and Insolvency Law: the Italian Answer

The New Italian Corporate Governance Code—a Step Forward for a More Sustainable and Proportional Corporate Governance Model

The Ridiculous Drama in Rome Over Proposals to Reform the ESM Treaty

Reprofiling Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow: A Unilateral Italian Debt Restructuring

Italy’s new Insolvency Code

Personal Attitudes and Financial Behaviours of Italian Financial Decision Makers: Evidence from the 2018 CONSOB Report

Financial Education challenges

Why Taxpayer-funded Bail-out rather than a Bail-in may be in the Public Interest: Proportionality and the Limits of Bank Resolution in the Light of Recent Developments in Italy

New Bank Resolution Regime as an Engine of EU Integration

2016 Consob Report on Corporate Governance of Italian Listed Companies

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