The Bank of Italy has made outstanding contributions at domestic and international level to the efforts to cope with the crisis, to revamping supervisory action, to the design and management of European monetary policy, to the formulation and implementation of the reform of European and global regulation. The autonomy of the Bank of Italy has been essential for all this.
An initial observation is that, despite the novelty of the Internet applications we see today, electronics have been used for commercial purposes for well over a century.