13 results about this entity
Period: 10 Mar 2010 - 21 Dec 2022
News/payments
Italy's government has scrapped plans to let merchants refuse digital payments of less than €60 after pushback from the country's central bank and the EC.
21 December 2022
News/wholesale
The Bank of Italy has selected blockchain technology from Algorand to support a new digital guarantees platform.
14 December 2022
Plans by Italy's new government to promote cash over digital payments are facing pushback from the country's central bank over black economy and tax evasion concerns.
06 December 2022
News/regulation
The Bank of Italy has imposed a ban on the recutiment of new customers by digital bank N26 following an on-site inspection which uncovered lax money laundering controls.
30 March 2022
Company announcement/sustainable
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Bank of Italy announced today the winners of the G20 TechSprint 2021 challenge during a live award ceremony in Milan.
25 October 2021
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub and the Bank of Italy, under the Italian G20 Presidency, today announced the shortlisted finalists and judges for the G20 green and sustainable finance challenge.
25 June 2021
News/sustainable
The BIS Innovation Hub and the Bank of Italy are launching a virtual hackathon-style competition to find new technological ways to tackle challenges in green and sustainable finance.
07 May 2021
Company announcement/retail
SIA has won Bank of Italy’s tender for the management of the Interbank Register of Bad Cheques and Payment Cards (Centrale di Allarme Interbancaria - CAI), the computerized archive of illicit bank and postal cheques and credit and debit cards that contributes to ensuring the smooth running of the national payments system. The concession will last 8 years.
03 June 2019
Company announcement
CERTFin, the new organization highly specialized in cybersecurity for the banking and financial sectors, has been established to prevent and combat cyber threats linked to the development of new technologies and to the digital economy.
21 December 2016
News
Visitors to the Vatican City can once more use their credit cards for purchases and ATM withdrawals, following the end of a six week ban over money laundering concerns.
13 February 2013
The Bank of Italy has suspended all card payments in the Vatican until further notice over a failure to implement anti-money laundering law, according to local press reports.
03 January 2013
American Express has been ordered by the central bank of Italy to suspend the distribution of new credit cards after falling foul of regulations governing money laundering, usury, and transparency.
09 April 2010
Bank of Italy has awarded SIA-SSB a five year, EUR23 million, contract to manage its interbank computerised archive of bad cheques and payment cards.
10 March 2010
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