In this area too, it is essential that banks remain highly vigilant with respect to the monitoring of risks. Over the years, cooperation with the judicial authorities has been intense: in the three years 2016-18, the Bank of Italy awarded more than 350 technical consultancy contracts, answered almost 700 requests for information, and issued more than 280 communications.
Support for the public prosecutor offices most heavily engaged in combatting financial crime has been stepped up. One tangible symbol of this is the memorandum of understanding that will soon be signed with the public prosecutor’s office in Milan, where a team of our experts has already been working since 2009.