...Federica Castro; Laura Leonori; Saverio Giorgio Purpose This paper aims at analysing how regulatory changes, introduced post-Basel III, have shaped the role of Compliance Function ( CF ) in “financial institutions”, where “banks” are the cynosure of the research. Design/methodology/approach...

...Giuliana Birindelli; Paola Ferretti Purpose The authors' paper aims to examine the organizational issues that come from the recent establishment of the compliance function in Italian banks. Design/methodology/approach The authors' paper takes as a starting point the Bank of Italy's regulations...

...Jonathan Edwards; Simon Wolfe The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published a consultation paper in late 2003 on the compliance function in banks. The aim of the consultation paper is to set out the views of banking...