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The impact of the financial crisis on various banking and financial systems has been severe, even dramatic, and has required interventions of different kinds: bailout operations by governments; regulatory and supervisory rethinking by policy makers and supervisory authorities (Gualandri 2008); and the definition of new strategies and refocusing of their businesses on the part of financial intermediaries.
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© 2012 Stefano Cosma and Elisabetta Gualandri
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Cosma, S., Gualandri, E. (2012). Introduction. In: Cosma, S., Gualandri, E. (eds) The Italian Banking System. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291905_1
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