Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide basic notions to understand how financial systems works, differences between banks and other financial intermediaries, as well as the reasons underlying special rules and public controls on intermediaries. The first part of the course is devoted to illustrating the characteristics of financial systems and the differences between banks and other financial intermediaries. The second part examines the rules governing banking supervision and the management of banking crises in the light of the evolution of the process of harmonization of laws in the financial sector in Europe.