The sovereign debt crisis: the impact on the intermediation model of Italian banks

The aim of the contribute is to analyze the impact of the financial crisis, in particular since the start of the sovereign debt phase, on Italian banks and their intermediation model. Italian banks\u2019 specific business model explains why they suffered less than those of other countries during the first phase of the crisis, requiring one of the lowest levels of public facilities in the EC as compared to GDP. Most of these same characteristics have changed from positive to negative factors since the sovereign debt crisis, which hit Italy hard, affecting first banks\u2019 liquidity and secondly the cost and volumes of funding and loans. Italian banks are now facing the effects of the double-dip recession, which has significantly weakened businesses and households, their key customer segments, and their borrowing and saving capability, with an increasing rate of non-performing loans. This situation is impairing the sustainability of the \u201ctraditional\u201d intermediation model and means that banks must introduce strategies for significantly modifying the banking business model they adopt

An Empirical Analysis on Board Monitoring Role and Loan Portfolio Quality Measurement in Banks

This paper aims to analyze the effectiveness of the board monitoring role on specific loan portfolio quality measures in banks (default rate, recovery rate and provisioning rate). We use a sample comprises a totality of Italian-based banks, listed at Borsa Italiana SpA in 2006-2008 and a number of accounting proxies to express the loan portfolio quality of a bank. The results of the analysis show an overall weakness of the board role (expressed by Independents and Audit Committee on board) in monitoring loan portfolio quality of the bank, with the subsequent damage of the interests of stakeholders. A positive contribution of board monitoring, even if partial, is highlighted in two cases: Independents seems improve recovery rate, while the Audit committee enhances provisioning rate in banks. With reference to default rate, a total negative effect of board monitoring is reported. On the base of these results, some managerial implications are proposed

Come stanno cambiando la banca e il sistema:alcune riflessioni

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Gestione del passivo e liquidità bancaria: fra memoria e apprendimento

La liquidità bancaria in relazione alla struttura attivo-passiv

Banche: strategie, organizzazioni e concentrazioni

La crisi 2007-2009 ha generato sostanziali cambiamenti nell’ambiente, nel mercato e fra i soggetti che «usano» l’intermediazione finanziaria. Si assiste alla nascita di nuove strategie bancarie, ma è prematuro tentare di identificarne i profili e le direzioni. L’Autore propone una lettura sistemica delle relazioni complesse fra le condizioni del contesto ambientale, le strategie dell’impresa bancaria, i modelli organizzativi e le forme istituzionali, che consenta al lettore di approfondire la conoscenza e meglio analizzare la «metamorfosi » degli intermediari finanziari. Il disegno o l’impianto del lavoro è di per sé assai lineare. Dopo una premessa metodologica, l’analisi dell’ambiente, dello scenario competitivo e dei suoi attori, il libro indaga i diversi modelli di strategie bancarie riferiti alle aree di affari e al portafoglio complessivo dell’attività di intermediazione finanziaria, analizza le tendenze di fondo del cambiamento dell’attività bancaria ed esamina le condizioni di coerenza funzionale della progettazione dei modelli organizzativi e i profili di complentarità-compatibilità fra questi e le forme istituzionali degli intermediari finanziari