Università Roma Tre

The essential topics are:
- Change and environment-strategy-structure relationship in the financial services industry
- Competitive scenario: the relevance of regulation and ICT
- Porter model applied to the financial services industry
- The business strategies of financial institutions: environment, goals, tools
- The diversification strategies of financial institutions: theoretical profiles
- The diversification strategies of financial institutions: principal characteristics and execution
- Supply side analysis. The relationships between concentration, competition, profitability and efficiency in financial institutions: from the S-C-P paradigm to the New Industrial organization
- Demand side analysis in retail banking: segmentation criteria, financial investment decisions, role of financial literacy, social media use
- Operations efficiency analysis: efficiency indicators, scale and scope economies
- The diversification strategies: strategic alliances, M&A, bancassurance
- The Fintech role on the strategic trends in financial services industry
- The managerial roles for strategic management in banking groups

For non attending students the assesment is based on oral test, based on the book Paolo Mottura, Banche, Egea, 2011, one compulsory reading (Strategia e organizzazione, file at disposal on the website of the course)and one reading in English (Haldane, 2016, file at disposal on the website of the course)
For attending students assessment is based on some chapters of the book Paolo Mottura, Banche, Egea, 2011, and other materials at disposal on the website of the course (slides, readings) at http://disa.uniroma3.it/