History teaches us that nothing is final; those who come after us will surely have to grapple with new problems and devise solutions that we have not been able to look for or find.
Nevertheless, the fact that the banking system was ‘part of the solution and not part of the problem’ in 2020, as has been endlessly repeated over the last few months, suggests that that some good has come of it. One last word on the Italian banking system. At the Basel negotiating table, we never forgot its peculiarities.