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PRIIPs Regulation and its Implementation: Consequences and Challenges
From 31 December 2016, manufacturers and distributors of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) will have to comply with the Regulation on Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and...Read more
Emilia Petrocelli
Senior Compliance Officer, Mediobanca SpA, Italy
Governance and Organisational Dilemmas in Building up Your
Due Diligence Process
In modern corporate times, due diligence investigations into third parties cannot be left solely to the initiative of the virtuous employee or to the goodwill of the competent manager. They...Read more
Lorenzo Mecocci
Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel, Aerospace & Defence, Sirio Panel S.p.A., Italy
The Hybrid Financial Instruments in Italy: A First Attempt to Define this Category
In the Italian market – as well as in the European and international market – a new type of financial instrument has been often mentioned and used by financial and...Read more
Ferdinando Bruno
Head of Italian Restructuring , UniCredit Bank AG, Milan Branch, (UniCredit Group), Italy
Benchmarking
In practise, benchmarking is a comparison method in order to assess and/or to evaluate a performance making a comparison with others performances of the same type. The comparison can be...Read more
Marina Vitale
Regional Legal Counsel, Hewlett Packard, Italy
The Italian Corporate Governance Code: New Standards for a Changing Market in Difficult Times
The new edition of Corporate Governance Code of companies listed on Borsa Italiana (the Italian Stock Exchange) was published on December 5th, 2011. The Code was presented by Gabriele Galateri...Read more
Giuseppe Catalano
Company Secretary and Head of Corporate Affairs, Assicurazioni Generali, Italy
Cloud Computing: Instructions for use
Cloud computing seems to be on everybody’s mouth as the future trend in IT. Notwithstanding the fact that it has been around for some years, it continues to represent a...Read more
Sergio Calderara
Partner, Italy
Arbitration Under art. 81 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
The purpose of this article is to analyze whether the EU judicial system is able to ensure the correct application of art. 81 of the Treaty of Functioning of the...Read more
Giulio Palermo
LLM in International Commercial Arbitration, Stockholm University, Italy
Compliance in the Insurance Sector
Compliance, as an autonomous concept and with its own implementation rules, is relatively new in the Italian legal framework.
The objectives that are assigned to a compliance department nowadays were, in...Read more
Paolo Amato
General Counsel, Old Mutual Wealth Italy SpA, Italy
The Role of the Board of Directors and of Controls in the Light of the new Italian Insurance Regulatory Framework, from an In-house Counsel Perspective
The Italian legal and regulatory framework has dramatically changed in recent years. In 2006 Legislative Decree 209/2005 came into force laying down the Code of private insurance that, by implementing...Read more
Chiara Regattieri
Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer, ERGO Italia S.p.A., Italy
The Eligible Operator in the Italian Market
With the approval of the 2006 Community law in Italy (from now on the Directive 2006), the Italian legislator delegated, <em>inter alia</em>, the Italian Government to follow a series of...Read more
Ferdinando Bruno
Head of Italian Restructuring , UniCredit Bank AG, Milan Branch, (UniCredit Group), Italy