The Banking and Finance department ensures a response to the sector’s key needs, with the unique ability to blend every legal and regulatory aspect with corporate strategy, which is an integral and essential part of the ongoing offering that has made BRUNO & ASSOCIATI a benchmark.

The legal support offered combines unique practices , going beyond mere legal operations and extending to a broader range of qualified support for the Board of Directors, evaluating their strategic decisions aimed at consolidating corporate value and fostering international growth.

This approach also includes more complex operations, typical of the reference sector and indicated below as the main activities.

• Overall compliance assessment of all relevant banking regulations (including internal banking regulations) and related action plans;
• AML and Anti-Financial Crime projects, including redefinition of the AML/AFC framework;
• Process efficiency, including due diligence, monitoring, and management of a task force for clearing backlogs;
• Product Oversight Governance: implementation of the entire POG framework (including the ESG scope for sustainable products) with development of governance rules, workflow, reporting, monitoring, and implementation of end-to-end tools for digital management;
• Digitalization of control and monitoring processes on compliance and risk issues;
• Transparency, Usury, Antitrust, Conduct;
• Legislative Decree 231/2001 (models, support for the Supervisory Body, technical consultancy);
• Ongoing support for Audit Risk and Compliance control functions;
• Implementation of the Non-Financial Risk framework and development of projects on reputational risks, fraud, and third-party risk management for banks under direct ECB supervision;
• Risk Management (set up, Op Risk, Market Risk, Rate);
• ESG: Risk Management, Compliance, Organization and Implementation;
• Coordination of board induction programs and board evaluations for listed and unlisted banks;
• Assessment of control functions with reporting of results to the ECB.