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The challenges for Italian banks: Npls management, efficiency, digital opportunities

Ignazio Visco
July - August 2016 - n. 7/8
Jel codes: G21, G28

The result of the UK referendum is affecting the euro area at a difficult time. The economic recovery has begun but is fragile. Faced with the risk that, in a highly uncertain environment, circumscribed problems could undermine confidence in the banking system, some form of public intervention cannot be ruled out. Italian banks face multiple and important challenges: from a more active management of NPLs to the achievement of higher levels of efficiency; from the exploitation of the opportunities offered by the technological-digital revolution to the reorganization of branch networks and the launch of ordinary and, if necessary, extraordinary cost-cutting measures.

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