Specific provisions regulate the activities of asset management companies (SGRs and SICAFs), securities investment firms (SIMs), financial intermediaries included in the Single Register provided for in the Consolidated Law on Banking (‘financial companies’), and payment service providers such as payment institutions (PIs) and electronic money institutions (EMIs).
In addition to the companies belonging to the major banking and insurance groups, numerous entities are controlled by industrial groups and private equity funds, and by various intermediaries of a public nature or with a strong public profile (regional finance companies, infrastructural or strategic funds).