Purpose – Following the subprime crisis and the detrimental role played by remuneration practices, an important reform concerned bank remuneration committees, especially in “significant financial institutions”. In light of this consideration, this paper aims to investigate the scope and...

This work analyses some aspects of cooperation, mutuality and commitment to the local community in the banking sector with specific reference to mutual banks (banche di credito cooperativo) which were first created in Italy around 1860, principally in response to the negative economic situation...

In the last decade, the Socially responsible investing funds market registered, at the Italian and European level, a steady growth trend in both the number of existing funds and the entity of assets under management. On this basis, this study, after providing a theoretical framework of the...

Starting from the analysis of the contents of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance, we focus on action eight: "The EU Commission will explore the feasibility of including risks associated with climate and other environmental factors in institutions’ risk management policies, as well as...

1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of legal measures, voluntary rules, indexes, and certifications concerning gender diversity in the banking industry -- 3. Women and bank performance: theoretical background and literature review -- 4. Data on female representation in banks -- 5. The gender pay...