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FinTech as an Essential Service In these times of unprecedented pandemic led economic uncertainty, there is a sector almost as vital as the healthcare system, which is “silently” sustaining the global quarantined economy, FinTech. As people ...more »

A partire dai noti problemi di manipolazione dei tassi LIBOR, su spinta del Financial Stability Board è stata condotta a livello internazionale una ampia riforma per la messa a punto di nuovi tassi benchmark. In ...more »

COVID-19 is the acronym for “coronavirus disease 2019”, an infectious respiratory disease, whose rapid outbreak made the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring it to be a global pandemic last 11th March 2020. The diagnosis is confirmed by a test and no vaccine has been yet identified. According ...more »

Under the regulation in force, in the Solvency II balance sheet the liabilities are valued at market level. The Best Estimate of liabilities is calculated by discounting future cash-flows using the risk free ...more »

“Pioggia d’estate e freddo in primavera con le stagioni impazzite. Annata caratterizzata da una forte eterogeneità. In entrambi i casi la produzione è stata completamente scombussolata.” Se il 2019 dei ...more »

EIOPA has recently (29.01.2020) published the risk dashboard (RDB) update at January 2020. The RDB is published on a quarterly basis, showing the level of risk for 8 (=7+1) risk categories. The latest outcome is reported in the table below, compared to the previous one ...more »

In the last six months I had to professionally deal with (and reject) a couple of cases. Potential customers wanted to build cryptocurrency-like systems disconnected from a least  compliance with the regulatory ...more »

(This is a slightly revised version of a blog posted at Bruegel on January 22, 2020, https://bruegel.org/2020/01/incorporating-political-risks-into-debt-sustainability-analysis/ ) Political stability and economic ...more »