In an attempt to restore market confidence, the Italian government has agreed to inject €5bn worth of taxpayers' money into two mid-sized regional banks, handing their good assets to Intesa Sanpaolo...

In late October 2022, the Bank of Italy published a communication drawing the attention of consumers to ‘Buy Now Pay Later' schemes. ‘Buy Now Pay later', or BNPL, is essentially a form of credit...

After a number of unsuccessful attempts, Italy managed to enact comprehensive reforms of its bankruptcy laws in 2005 and 2006.

What am I talking about? I am referring to the basic bank accounts that people use in Italy — those accounts that were probably set up when you first moved here, perhaps because the person you were buying a house from suggested opening an account at the same branch to make life easier, or because you were referred to the local bank simply because “everyone uses it”, or because someone knew someone who could open an account for you even before you were officially resident.

The Court of Cassation, in its ruling no. 19123/2020, affirmed that the erroneous indication of cadastral data of a foreclosed property does not imply...

In 2016, the Italian Parliament introduced the "non-possessory" pledge (i.e., floating charge) with the aim of offering Italian businesses the possibility to secure payment obligations...

One of the most delicate aspects in real estate financing transactions is the security connected to the loan. The main problems faced by businesspeople and advisors not familiar with the Italian real estate market are related to the procedures and timing requested for the enforcement of the security. Such enforcement has to precede the drawdown of the loan in 90 percent of all cases.

CONSOB approved the amendments to art. 34-ter, paragraph 1, lett. C) of the Issuers' Regulations relating to the threshold for exemption ...

This creates new investment opportunities in the Italian real estate market for both traditional players as well as new investors approaching such market for the first time.

A few days ago, Regulation 2022/858 came into force, regulating a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on the distributed ledger technology.

Possono altresì beneficiare dell'intervento del Fondo le imprese in amministrazione straordinaria che occupino un numero non inferiore a 200 dipendenti da almeno un anno.

The Italian government has recently published its 2024 Annual Report on Foreign Direct Investment, providing an overview of the exercise of its special powers, commonly referred to as "Golden Power," in sectors deemed strategic for national security.

Law Decree No. 59 dated 3 May 2016 introduced a new security instrument for real estate financings which entails secured creditors to satisfy their claims against the mortgaged assets...

On 18 July 2024 Consob published its Resolution no. 23208 of 17 July 2024 (the "Resolution 23208") that implements a waiver to the provisions of Regulation (EU) no. 2017/2402 (the "Securitisation Regulation") exercising the discretion granted to it pursuant to article 26e (10), third subparagraph of the Securitisation Regulation, following the publication of the European Banking Authority ("EBA") Opinion of 7 June 2024 (the "EBA Opinion").