Markets, infrastructures, payment systems

Innovation and the rollout of digital technologies are radically transforming how markets and payment systems work. New types of business, new means of payment, and groundbreaking technological solutions based on cryptography and the use of distributed ledgers are emerging all the time. With this come new risks linked, for example, to the violation of privacy and cybersecurity. These changes must be accompanied, guided, and regulated; they are the subject of ongoing discussions in the international institutions, in Europe and in Italy.

The new series 'Markets, Infrastructures, Payment Systems' aims to raise awareness of these issues and to foster debate among the institutions, economic operators and members of the public, making available to readers a set of experiences and know-how which also reflect the Bank's active participation in the construction and management of Eurosystem infrastructures.

The publications are didactic in scope, primarily targeting non-specialist readers, but equally take a close look at frontier issues, with academics and researchers in mind, as well as staff at international institutions and the other central banks.

Latest publications

  1. 26 June 2025
    No. 60 - The use of Banca d'Italia's credit assessment system for Italian non-financial firms within the Eurosystem's collateral framework
    by Stefano Di Virgilio, Alessandra Iannamorelli, Francesco Monterisi and Simone Narizzano
  2. 16 May 2025
    No. 59 - Modelling transition risk-adjusted probability of default
    by Manuel Cugliari, Alessandra Iannamorelli and Federica Vassalli
  3. 13 May 2025
    No. 58 - Chat Bankman-Fried? An Exploration of LLM Alignment in Finance
    by Claudia Biancotti, Carolina Camassa, Andrea Coletta, Oliver Giudice, Aldo Glielmo
  4. 31 January 2025
    No. 57 - The German and Italian Government Bond Markets: The Role of Banks versus Non-Banks
    by P. Abbassi, M. Leonardo Bianchi, D. Della Gatta, R. Gallo, H. Gohlke, D. Krause, A. Miglietta, L. Moller, J. Orben, O. Panzarino, D. Ruzzi, W. Scherrieble, M. Schmidt
  5. 8 January 2025
    No. 56 - A general framework to assess the smooth implementation of monetary policy: an application to the introduction of the digital euro
    by Annalisa De Nicola and Michelina Lo Russo