- Docente: Giuseppe Lusignani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Financial Markets and Institutions (cod. 0901)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, students must have knowledge of all the main rules that the financial markets and intermediaries sector must comply with, in various areas (capital, liquidity, market risk, client wealth management, etc.) to mitigate credit, liquidity, market, and operational risks. The course's primary objective is to assess the impacts on the financial sector and the broader economic system of the entire regulatory framework developed following the major financial crisis and technological advancements (payment directive, digital operational resilience regulation, cryptocurrency regulation), as well as new political priorities (Paris climate agreement).
Course contents
The course will be divided into ten lectures, which will include, when possible, a guest speaker from the industry and regulation authorities:
- Regulation of bank capital: from Basel I to Basel III+; European directives and comparison with regulations in other jurisdictions (USA, UK)
- Liquidity regulation: the new liquidity requirements introduced by Basel III
- Bank crisis management: the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD)
- Stress testing as a new supervisory tool
- Regulation of financial markets: MiFID I, MiFID II, RIS
- Revision of payment services rules: PSD2
- Transparency on climate risks: CSRD, SFRD, climate risk taxonomy, new accounting standards
- Climate risks: new exploratory stress tests
- Digital finance: digital operational resilience regulation (DORA) and cryptocurrency regulation (MiCA)
- Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) and macroprudential regulation
Readings/Bibliography
Bibliographic references will be provided during the course and made available on the platform virtuale.unibo.it .
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
The exam consists of a written test, where students will be required to analytically and numerically apply the knowledge developed in the lectures.
Teaching tools
Lectures with projector support
Office hours
See the website of Giuseppe Lusignani