Genoa Centre for Law and Finance

Books

• ‘Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: the challenge of regulating alternative forms of finance’, Routledge, London/New York, 2017, p. I – 308 (ISBN: 9781138652798)
• (with A. Sciarrone Alibrandi, G. Borello, R. Ferretti, P. Giudici, F. Lenoci, E. Macchiavello, F. Mattassoglio, F. Panisi e A. Santoro), ‘Marketplace lending: verso nuove forme di intermediazione finanziaria?’, Consob Quaderni FinTech No. 2 (Consob, Milan/Rome, 2019), forthcoming (about marketplace lending platforms in Italy, Europe and US)

Chapters

• ‘FinTech and the Securities Sector: the Impact of Disintermediated Platforms and EU financial regulation, in I. Chiu and G. Deipenbrock, Routledge Handbook on FinTech and Law – Regulatory, Supervisory, Policy and other Legal Challenges, Routledge, London, forthcoming 2020 (CHAPTER)
• ‘Marketplace lending and investing in Europe and the EC Proposal for a regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for businesses’, in E. Bani, E. Rutkowska-Tomaszewska, B. Pachuca-Smulska (eds), Public Law and the Challenges of New Technologies and Digital Markets, Volume II, C.H. Beck, Munich (forthcoming 2020) (CHAPTER)
• ‘FinTech Regulation from a cross-sectoral perspective’, in Colaert e D. Busch (eds.), European Financial Regulation: Levelling the Cross-Sectoral Playing Field, Hart, London (forthcoming)
• ‘FinTech Regulation from a cross-sectoral perspective’, in V. Colaert, D. Busch e T. Incalza (eds.), European Financial Regulation: Levelling the Cross-Sectoral Playing Field, Hart, London, (December 2019), pp. 63-85 (ISBN 9781509926459) (CHAPTER)
• ‘Conto di pagamento per consumatori con esigenze di base: regolazione eteronoma e nuovi obiettivi di inclusione finanziaria’, in L. Amannati, P. Corrias, F. Sartori e A. Sciarrone Alibrandi (eds.), I giudici e l’economia, Giappichelli, Torino, 2018, pp. 335-373 (ISBN: 9788892118027) (about basic payment account regulation in Italy)
• (with G. Ferrarini) ‘Fintech and Alternative Finance in the CMU: The regulation of Marketplace Investing’, chapter in E. Avgouleas, D. Busch e G. Ferrarini (eds.), Capital Markets Union in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, 208 – 233 (ISBN: 9780198813392)
• ‘Commento all’art. 126 vicies-bisu.b. – Spese applicabili’, in F. Capriglione (ed.), Commentario al Testo Unico delle leggi in materia bancaria e creditizia, Cedam, Padova, 2018, pp. 2370-2379 (ISBN: 9788813367541) (about basic payment account regulation in Italy – expenses)
• ‘Commento all’art. 126-vicies quateru.b. – Conti di base per particolari categorie di consumatori’, in F. Capriglione (ed.), Commentario al Testo Unico delle leggi in materia bancaria e creditizia, Cedam, Padova, 2018, pp. 2383-2386 (ISBN: 9788813367541) (about basic payment account regulation in Italy – free account for special categories of consumers)
• (with A. Sciarrone Alibrandi) ‘Commento all’art. 111-bisu.b. – Finanza etica e sostenibile’, in F. Capriglione (ed.), Commentario al Testo Unico delle leggi in materia bancaria e creditizia, Cedam, Padova, 2018, pp. 1643-1655 (ISBN: 9788813367541) (about ethical banks and sustainable finance)
• “La problematica regolazione del lending-based crowdfunding in Italia’, in Banca, borsa e titoli di credito 2018, 1 (addressing legal issues in regulating lending-based crowdfunding in Italy, presenting possible qualifications and proposing a new approach in regulating FinTech and in financial regulation)
• (with G. Ferrarini) ‘Investment-based Crowdfunding: Is MiFID II enough?’, chapter in D. Busch and G. Ferrarini (eds.), Regulation of the EU Financial Markets. MiFID II and MiFIR, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017 pp. 659-692 (ISBN 9780198767671)
• ‘Il ricorso alla forma societaria per il trasferimento ed il godimento di immobili’, in Giovanna Visintini (ed.), “Trattato di diritto immobiliare”, Cedam, 2013, pp. 1217-1292 (ISBN: 978-88-13-32841-2) (about the deploy of corporations for the transfer and use of real estate)
• ‘Private Regulation and Enforcement in Microfinance: a Multi-Layered and Polycentric Puzzle’, in Fabrizio Cafaggi and Geoffrey P. Miller (with Tiago Andreotti, Maciej Borowicz, Agnieszka Janczuk, Eugenia Macchiavello and Paolo Saguato), The Governance and Regulation of International Finance, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013, pp. 73-116 (ISBN: 9780857939470)
• ‘Anatocismo e usura nei contratti bancari’, in Giovanna Visintini (ed.), Trattato della Responsabilità contrattuale, Cedam, 2009, 633-664 (ISBN:978-88-13-29704-6) (concerning anatocism and usury in banking contracts)
• ‘La responsabilità da prospetto degli intermediari finanziari’, in Giovanna Visintini (ed.), Trattato della Responsabilità contrattuale, Cedam, 2009, pp. 793-830 (ISBN:978-88-13-29704-6) (on underwriters’ prospectus liability and the recent Italian reform on the topic)
• ‘Risarcibilità dei danni da fumo attivo: le diverse facce del nesso causale’, in F. Alcaro, C. Fenga, E. Moscati, F. Pernice, R. Tommasini (eds.), Valori della persona e modelli di tutela contro i rischi ambientali e genotossici: esperienze a confronto, Firenze University Press, 2008, 297-326 (ISBN: 978-88-8453-826-0) (regarding the evaluation of causation in tobacco litigation)

Papers

• ‘Possono esistere “banche etiche”? La nuova definizione normativa di “operatori di finanza etica e sostenibile” tra interesse sociale, scopo di lucro e normativa bancaria post-crisi’, forthcoming in Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto dell’Economia (about ethical banks)
• ‘La travagliata evoluzione normativa dell’equity crowdfunding in Italia, il nuovo regolamento Consob e la prospettiva di regolazione del crowdfunding a livello europeo: una disciplina destinata a breve vita?’, in dir. banc., dirittobancario.it, 16, 2018, 1-31 (ISSN: 2279–9737) (about recent developments in equity-based crowdfunding regulation in Italy and Europe)
• ‘La problematica regolazione del lending-based crowdfunding in Italia’, in Banca, borsa e titoli di credito 2018, 1, I, 63-98 (ISSN 2499-1007) (about lending-based crowdfunding regulation in Italy)
• ‘Financial-return crowdfunding and regulatory approaches in the shadow banking, FinTech and collaborative finance era’, (2017) 14 (4) European Company and Financial Law Review 662-722 (ISSN 1613-2556)
• “La modifica al regolamento Consob in materia di equity crowdfunding alla luce dell’evoluzione del diritto finanziario europeo e delle tendenze di regolazione dell’investment-based crowdfunding in Europa’, in Banca, impresa e società 2016, 2, 283-353 (ISSN: 1120-9453) (about regulatory reforms in Italy targeting equity-crowdfunding in comparison with other national approaches to financial-return crowdfunding and possible implications from Capital Markets Union)
• ‘Peer-to-peer lending and the “democratization” of credit markets: another financial innovation puzzling regulators’, (2015) 21(3) Columbia Journal of European Law 521-586 (ISSN: 1076-6715)
• ‘Peer-to-peer lending ed informazione: la tutela dell’utente online tra innovazione finanziaria, disintermediazione e limiti cognitivi’, in Diritto della banca e del mercato finanziario, 2015, 2, 221-293 (ISSN: 1722-8360) (about regulatory trends and issues in regulating P2P lending with special reference to the role of disclosure in the wake of the financial crisis and consequent reforms)
• ‘Una nuova frontiera del settore finanziario solidale: microfinanza e peer-to-peer lending’, in Banca, Impresa e Società 2013, 2, 277-336 (ISSN: 1120-9453) (about peer-to-peer lending platforms, their role as Microfinance Institutions’ funders and regulatory concerns).
• ‘Microfinance Regulation and Supervision: a multi-faced prism of structures, levels and issues’, 9(1) NYU Journal of Law and Business 2012, 125-197 (ISSN: 1558-5778) and available at SSRN
• ‘Securitisation in microfinance and global financial crisis: innovation or Trojan horse?’, (2013) 28(3) Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 109-122 (ISSN: 1742-6812) and available at SSRN.
• ‘La regolazione della microfinanza tra equità ed efficienza’, in Diritto della Banca e del mercato finanziario, 2012, 2, 319-370 (ISSN: 1722-8360) (about microfinance regulation in Italy and EU)
• “Leasing di nave e le annose questioni in materia di risoluzione anticipata”, in Il Diritto Marittimo 2011,113/2, 458-472 (ISSN: 0012-348X) (about leasing contracts)
• ‘La responsabilità da prospetto degli intermediari finanziari tra passato, presente e futuro’, in Contratto e impresa, 2009, 4/5, 911- 941 (ISSN: 1123-5055) (about prospectus liability in Italy)
• ‘Mancato lancio di OPA obbligatoria. Il puzzle SAI – Fondiaria alla luce di alcune esperienza europee’ (with G.G. Peruzzo), in Giur. Comm., 2008, 5, I, 908-946 (ISSN: 0390-2269)  (analysis of the Italian case – SAI Fondiaria – regarding mandatory bid rule and of French, English and German experiences and Law in the same field)