Although at a reduced speed with respect to the rest of Europe, credit and debit cards are substituting cash payments in Italy, particularly in ways that are convenient to users

They manage $2.7 trillion worth of assets and were once viewed as a threat to free market capitalism.

Old age and the financial problems posed by the increase in life expectancy: we must create a market of instruments indexed to lifetime duration.

After SMEs took a bad hit in the crisis, markets are finding new ways to funnel investments toward these traditionally profitable firms

Neither blocking rating information nor creating a public European rating agency is a good solution to the current malaise.