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Financial, Italian Financial Conglomerates, Consob

Legislative Decree n. 142/2005 ("conglomerates decree") Bank of Italy, Ivass and Consob The list of Italian financial conglomerates as at 31 December 2018 was updated On the basis of the provisions of the Coordination Agreement signed on March 31, 2006, the Bank of Italy, Ivass and Consob updated the list of Italian financial conglomerates, that is to say those corporate groups that perform business to an extent significant in both the insurance and banking sectors and / or investment services. Supervision of financial conglomerates is exercised, pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 142/2005 ("conglomerates decree"), with the supplementary supervisory tools in addition to those...

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Banking and Companies, Internationalization, Chinese Market

From banks over 7 billion to support the commercial and financial operations of companies in the high potential sectors of the Chinese market Economic Forum held in Tianjin, on the occasion of the entrepreneurial mission dedicated to SMEs, organized by the Cassa depositi e prestiti (CDP), for the Italian part, and Bank of China (BoC), for the Chinese side, in coordination with the Ministry of Development Italian economic (MiSE) and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and with the support of ABI, Confindustria and ICE Agency. The aims of the "five banks participating in the mission" are as follows: a) reinforce the support...

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Banking and Companies, Funding & Capital Markets Forum,

Banking and financial world and companies New paradigms of collaboration, increasingly stringent logics that impact on the capacities and methods of collection of banks and companies, recent regulatory changes: in the light of all this, the banking and financial world and companies must develop innovative models of relationship to do business, and govern it, within an increasingly complex scenery. Funding & Capital Markets Forum is the information and relationship space, promoted by the ABI which involves the Italian and international financial community and companies for a comparison and exchange of ideas, experiences, projects, success stories and innovation paths, for identify the actions...

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Financial, revision of some provisions contained in the Regulation on markets, Consob

Consob approved (resolution no. 21028 of 3 September 2019) an intervention to revise certain provisions contained in the Market Regulation adopted with resolution no. 20249 of December 28, 2017. The main changes made to the legislative text were subjected to a public consultation carried out in the period between 15 and 28 February last. The review activity concerned, in particular: (a) the regulation of the equity investments that can be held by the manager of the regulated market and the related disclosure obligations and (b) the due communications regarding the exemption for ancillary activity in commodity derivatives. With regard to point (a), that is the...

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Financial, futures, swaps and any other derivative contract related to goods, Consob

Consob informed ESMA, the European financial markets authority, of its willingness to comply with the guidelines issued on commodity derivatives falling under points 6 and 7 of section c of Annex I of the Mifid II directive (Notice of 25 July 2019). The guidelines update those adopted by ESMA in October 2015 to adapt them to the new regulatory framework without changing the substance. The Guidelines provide clarifications on the definition of certain financial instruments referred to in Annex I, Mifid II, fully incorporated in the Consolidated Law on Finance - Tuf and clarify in particular the scope and methods of application...

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Business contracts, Sale, Guarantee action for defects, Court of Cassation, Section Un., Judgment n. 18672 of 11/07/2019

Extrajudicial manifestations of will of the buyer expressed in the forms referred to in art. 1219, paragraph 1, of the Italian Civil Code - Interruption effectiveness of the prescription - Existence. The Sec. U., on a matter of general importance, have affirmed the following principle of law: "In the sale contract they constitute - pursuant to art. 2943, paragraph 4, of the Italian Civil Code - suitable interrupting acts of the prescription of the guarantee action for defects, provided by the art. 1495, paragraph 3 of the civil code, the extrajudicial manifestations of will of the buyer carried out in the...

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Companies, Financial, Borsa Italiana, 119 companies listed on AIM Italia

AIM Italia, the Borsa Italiana market dedicated to small and medium enterprises The company brings to 119 the number of companies listed on AIM Italia, the Borsa Italiana market dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises, the latest admitted is the nineteenth since the beginning of the year, of which the fifteenth on AIM Italia. June 29, 2019 Source Borsa Italiana...

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Financial, Consob Notice regarding compliance with the Guidelines issued by ESMA with regard to limiting the procyclical nature of the margins of central counterparties

Consob and the Bank of Italy, as competent authorities for the supervision of Italian central counterparties, comply with the "Guidelines on EMIR anti-cyclical margin measures for central counterparties" issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA ), integrating them into their supervisory practices. The Guidelines, published by the ESMA on April 15th, provide detailed indications on the measures that the central counterparties must implement to limit the procyclical nature of margins, in order to favor a common, uniform and coherent application of European standards (art 41 of Regulation (EU) No. 648/2012 and articles 10 and 28 of Delegated Regulation (EU)...

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Financial, mandatory take-over by consolidation and increased vote, Consob

Regulation of the mandatory tender offer for consolidation and of the increased vote pursuant to articles 106, paragraph 3, lett. b) and 127-quinquies, of Legislative Decree no. 58/1998 and 46, of Consob Regulation n. 11971/1999 (Issuers Regulation) Consob clearing up Due to the accrual of the increase in the voting rights of the shares of a listed company by two partners acting in concert, the shareholding held by them had exceeded the takeover threshold (5%). In this perspective, in order to avoid the consequent obligation to opt out, these shareholders had communicated to the market the intention to avail themselves of the exemption...

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