Università Roma Tre

The course illustrates and debates the following main topics:
• Strategic and organizational changes in the Financial Services Industry (FSI)
• Regulation and technology: their impact on competitive strategies
• Theoretical frameworks to analyse strategic and organizational change: from
Industrial Organization to Strategic Management in FSI
• Business strategies in FSI: the basic strategies and their application (cost
leadership, differentiation, segmentation)
• Corporate strategies in FSI: diversification and competencies
• The emerging challenges of Fintech
• Alternative Finance and Crowdfunding
• Evidences from European Banking Industry

For attending students: presentations, cases, articles and papers put on the course web page after or before the
lectures
If you need a reference book about financial services strategies, you can read (it’s not
compulsory): FinTech, BigTech and Banks Digitalisation and Its Impact on Banking
Business Models, Authors: Tanda, Alessandra, Schena, Cristiana-Maria, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2019; You can buy ebook here:
https://www.palgrave.com/it/book/9783030224257#otherversion=9783030224264
About strategy analysis, you can read: R. Grant, Contemporary Strategy
Analysis, Wiley, 2010

For non attending students, it is compulsory this book: FinTech, BigTech and Banks Digitalisation and Its Impact on Banking
Business Models, Authors: Tanda, Alessandra, Schena, Cristiana-Maria, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2019; You can buy ebook here:
https://www.palgrave.com/it/book/9783030224257#otherversion=9783030224264