...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...

... last objective is to verify whether the actual regulation on compliance induces financial firms – clustered by size, business and area orientation – to invest in measuring and managing solutions to face the compliance risk, generating asymmetric costs. In Italy, the goals and characteristics...

...Giuliana Birindelli; Paola Ferretti Purpose The objective of this paper is to highlight the results of a survey on compliance practices in Italian financial institutions (Italian banks and branches in Italy of foreign banks). Design/methodology/approach The survey is carried out through...

.... The purpose of this paper is to outline bank deregulation and acquisition activity, focusing on the USA, Italy and Germany. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at how changes in the regulatory regime of the USA, Italy and Germany have spurred bank merger activities. For each country, future...