This book explains how to restructure and successfully turn around a bank or financial institution at a time when the global financial system is facing a new wave of disruption ushered in by innovation from digital financial technology, or FinTech. It is argued that within banking this process of creative destruction will entail unprecedented challenges for traditional institutions as well as opportunities for new, mostly digital, players. A great deal of restructuring, turnaround, and transformation will be required. While information on these topics is widely available with respect to...

Aeroporti internazionali e treni superveloci, grand hotel e grattacieli delle capitali finanziarie europee, mediorientali e americane fanno da scenario quotidiano alle avventure del consulente. Che si tratti del fracking per l'estrazione dello shale gas o di bolle immobiliari costruite sulla sabbia del deserto, o di immaginare la banca del futuro, a portarlo in giro per il mondo sono questioni di business che spesso impongono di guardare oltre: alle forze distruttive dell'economia in azione, agli orizzonti delle nuove frontiere geopolitiche, alle sfide che donne e uomini di ogni latitudine si...

This book discusses the most critical issues relating to the recovery of bad loans a major problem that European banks urgently need to address and resolve. The book describes, in an innovative but also pragmatic way, the new approaches, techniques, and models for optimal management of non-performing loans (NPLs) and the maximization of their recovery value. Drawing on a rigorous academic background and the latest real-life experiences of major European banks, it details a novel means of dealing with NPLs based on velocity, the holistic use of tools and accelerators, and the active management...

This book analyzes the set of forces driving the global financial system toward a period of radical transformation and explores the transformational challenges that lie ahead for global and regional or local banks and other financial intermediaries. It is explained how these challenges derive from the newly emerging post-crisis structure of the market and from shadow and digital players across all banking operations. Detailed attention is focused on the impacts of digitalization on the main functions of the financial system, and particularly the banking sector. The author elaborates how an...