The Bank of Italy intends to define standards and guidelines to be implemented according to an 'open approach' in order to encourage as much sharing as possible, in order to maximize their adoption by potential users and to facilitate their dissemination at both domestic and international level.
I believe that, in order to achieve the right balance between opportunities and risks, knowledge is the first step. As a financial supervisor and overseer of payment systems and market infrastructures, we are actively engaged in collecting structured information on the current activities and the future projects of the different players involved.