Alternative financial instruments: Green bond issuance and its features

Green bonds are taking off as the financial instrument of choice for the private and public sectors to finance projects with social and environmental benefits, such as clean power, low-carbon transport,energy efficient buildings, waste management. But what are exactly green bonds and how they could be used by corporation to gain access to capital and...

Investing savings in productive and income generating assets

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, deposits of households and businesses with banks have increased by more than €200 billion. This increase reflects both the effect of government restrictions to reduce the spread of the infections, and the strong uncertainty on economic prospects experienced up to nowadays, with the well-known events that are perturbating the...

Structural differences in Italy but heroic entrepreneurs hold the fort!

The Italian productive system is one of the most fragmented in Europe, with a variety of differences in management approach and, consequently, in performances. Italy is also the country where more than 90% of enterprises are defined as micro and SMEs, mostly family-owned businesses with latent potential, due mainly to lack of structural support and...