Italy's Council of State has issued a landmark ruling that fundamentally reshapes foreign direct investment filing requirements for secured financing transactions.

I finanziamenti potranno avere una durata massima di cinque anni e potranno essere concessi entro il 31 Dicembre 2021.

On December 24, 2019, the Italian Parliament approved the Budget Law for 2020, which contains a package of tax increases and decreases with varying effective dates, described below.

Among the European Union ("EU") Member States, Italy is by far the largest beneficiary of the NextGenerationEU ("NGEU") package, which, with its 750 billion euros funds...

This newsletter does not consider the criminal aspects of usury and only deals with objective usury.

The new voluntary disclosure, launched by the Italian government allows regulation of your debt situation with the Italian State.

On 29 June 2023, Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets ("MiCAR") partially entered into force.

L'art. 3 del Decreto Legge 24 Gennaio 2015 n. 3, dispone che la SACE è autorizzata - previa autorizzazione della Banca d'Italia - a svolgere il proprio intervento...

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...

Italian trust fund and family trust: what are the differences between them? What is meant with revocation? You can find all answers and other information here.

An employee at Intesa Sanpaolo unlawfully accessed thousands of customer records over two years, leading to a €31.8 million fine from Italy's data protection authority. The ruling underscores that insider threats demand proactive, risk-based controls and that unauthorised access alone—even without data extraction—triggers serious breach notification obligations under GDPR.

From January 1st, 2021, UK banks will qualify as non-EU banks and relative provisions will apply.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) initiated, and completed, the consultation process leading up to the publication - on 14 May 2024 - of its Guidelines on funds' names using ESG...

L'intermediario finanziario è obbligato verso il cliente a fornire, in maniera puntuale e precisa, tutte le informazioni del prodotto e del suo mittente.

Lo scorso 6 aprile Banca d'Italia ha pubblicato un documento di consultazione in materia di acquisizione

According to recent Italian case law Real Estate Funds may now enter as debtors into the debt restructuring agreements (so called "accordi di ristrutturazione dei debiti") provided for by the Italian bankruptcy law.

Il 17 maggio 2017 la Commissione europea ha pubblicato lo studio "Covered Bonds in the European Union: harmonisation of legal frameworks and market behaviours".

Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 – in compliance with the principles set forth in EU legislation on the prevention of corporate crimes and the assessment of companies’ liability – has determined the liability of companies and legal entities for those crimes committed by subjects representing or acting on behalf of the company or entity

Once frozen, the bank accounts should not be cancelled whilst the judicial authority's decision is pending.