Bank of Italy, following the public consultation issued in January 2025, extended the Regulation on customer due diligence and the Regulation on organization, procedures and internal controls to crypto-asset service providers...more
Bank of Italy issued a public consultation proposing to extend the Regulation on customer due diligence and the Regulation on organization, procedures and internal controls to crypto-asset service providers (“CASPs”)....more
On 15 June 2023, the Bank of Italy published on its website a series of acts aimed at reviewing the domestic AML rules to comply with EBA Guidelines on the use of remote customer onboarding solutions....more
The attention of financial regulators on environmental, social and governance factors is significantly and rapidly increasing. A proper integration of ESG features in the business model of financial and non-financial entities...more
Il presente contributo analizza la consultazione Banca d’Italia sulle proposte di modifica alle disposizioni di vigilanza sulle obbligazioni bancarie garantite (covered bond) contenute nella Circolare n. 285 del 17 dicembre...more
Italian secondary legislation about to be adapted to EU standards - On 15 July 2021, the Italian Council of Ministers approved, in preliminary examination, a legislative decree introducing rules to adapt national legislation...more
On 1 July 2021, the Bank of Italy transposed into the Italian legal framework Article 106 of PSD2 regarding the obligation for payment service providers to inform consumers of their rights in the context of the provision of...more
On the basis of the measures recently adopted by the Italian Government to face the current COVID-19 emergency, on 10 April 2020, the Bank of Italy issued its recommendations to financial intermediaries on (i) anti-money...more
Please find below a brief summary of two Italian developments on PSD2. More specifically: on 6 April 2020, the Italian Government approved a draft Legislative Decree introducing corrective and supplementary provisions to...more
“Nel contratto di mutuo non è giuridicamente configurabile un tasso di interesse negativo che incida sul capitale mutuato. Conseguentemente, quando il tasso d’interesse sia stato pattuito in misura variabile, esso non può...more
International investment funds are set to benefit from measures issued by the Bank of Italy, aimed at facilitating direct investment into the country by EU alternative investment funds....more
On 23 December 2016, the Bank of Italy supplemented the regulation on the collective investment management (the "Regulation") which, inter alia, implements article 46-ter of Legislative Decree. n. 58/1998 ("Consolidated...more
On 23 December 2016 law decree 237 (the "Decree") was published in the Official Gazette no. 299 and entered into force on the same day. The Decree was adopted in light of events that have affected Banca Monte dei Paschi...more