Financial Services Strategies

Codice: 21210101

Scheda insegnamento

Anno Accademico di erogazione
2026/2027
Corso di studi
Economia Aziendale
Periodo di erogazione
Primo semestre
CFU
9 CFU
Lingua
Inglese
SSD
ECON-09/B

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Programma, testi adottati e modalità d’esame sono quelli pubblicati dai docenti per l’anno accademico 2026/2027. L’insegnamento è diviso in canali: ogni canale ha il suo programma.

Curriculum
Business administration
Anno di corso
1
Periodo
Primo semestre
Ore
60
CUIN
260006349

Programma

The course illustrates and debates the following main topics:
• Strategic and organizational changes in the Financial Services Industry (FSI)
• Regulation and technology: their impact on competitive strategies
• Theoretical frameworks to analyse strategic and organizational change: from
Industrial Organization to Strategic Management in FSI
• Business strategies in FSI: the basic strategies and their application (cost
leadership, differentiation, segmentation)
• Corporate strategies in FSI: diversification and competencies
• The emerging challenges of Fintech
• Alternative Finance and Crowdfunding
• Evidences from European Banking Industry

Prerequisiti

Nessuno. Si consiglia la frequenza di un corso di economia degli intermediari finanziari nella laurea triennale.

Testi adottati

For attending students: presentations, cases, articles and papers put on the course web page after or before the
lectures
If you need a reference book about financial services strategies, you can read (it’s not
compulsory):
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology) 1st ed. 2021 Edition
You can buy ebook here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81835-7#about-book-content
About strategy analysis, you can read: R. Grant, Contemporary Strategy
Analysis, Wiley, 2010

For non attending students, it is compulsory this book:
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology) 1st ed. 2021 Edition
You can buy ebook here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81835-7#about-book-content

Bibliografia di riferimento

On demand, Professor can suggest a selected bibliography on course topics

Modalità di erogazione

Lectures, seminars, case discussions, project works, business cases presentation

Modalità di frequenza

It better to attend the course, especially for the intense team involvement in project works

Modalità di valutazione

For attending students the assessment is based on project works and oral test on programme contents

For non attending students the assesment is based on oral test. For this test you must read:
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology) 1st ed. 2021 Edition
You can buy ebook here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81835-7#about-book-content

Prove previste

  • Prova orale
  • Valutazione di un progetto

Curriculum
Business administration con tirocinio
Anno di corso
1
Periodo
Primo semestre
Ore
60
CUIN
260013279

Programma

The course illustrates and debates the following main topics:
• Strategic and organizational changes in the Financial Services Industry (FSI)
• Regulation and technology: their impact on competitive strategies
• Theoretical frameworks to analyse strategic and organizational change: from
Industrial Organization to Strategic Management in FSI
• Business strategies in FSI: the basic strategies and their application (cost
leadership, differentiation, segmentation)
• Corporate strategies in FSI: diversification and competencies
• The emerging challenges of Fintech
• Alternative Finance and Crowdfunding
• Evidences from European Banking Industry

Prerequisiti

Nessuno. Si consiglia la frequenza di un corso di economia degli intermediari finanziari nella laurea triennale.

Testi adottati

For attending students: presentations, cases, articles and papers put on the course web page after or before the
lectures
If you need a reference book about financial services strategies, you can read (it’s not
compulsory):
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology) 1st ed. 2021 Edition
You can buy ebook here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81835-7#about-book-content
About strategy analysis, you can read: R. Grant, Contemporary Strategy
Analysis, Wiley, 2010

For non attending students, it is compulsory this book:
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology) 1st ed. 2021 Edition
You can buy ebook here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81835-7#about-book-content

Bibliografia di riferimento

On demand, Professor can suggest a selected bibliography on course topics

Modalità di erogazione

Lectures, seminars, case discussions, project works, business cases presentation

Modalità di frequenza

It better to attend the course, especially for the intense team involvement in project works

Modalità di valutazione

For attending students the assessment is based on project works and oral test on programme contents

For non attending students the assesment is based on oral test. For this test you must read:
Disruptive Technology in Banking and Finance: An International Perspective on FinTech (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology) 1st ed. 2021 Edition
You can buy ebook here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81835-7#about-book-content

Prove previste

  • Prova orale
  • Valutazione di un progetto

Esplora gli obiettivi dell’insegnamento

Ambito disciplinare: Discipline Aziendali

The course aims at opening the black box of managerial decisions connected with the
strategy making process in the financial services industry nowadays. This main goal is
pursued with lectures, seminars, case discussions and project works. By the end of this
course students should be able to understand the main competitive strategies of traditional
and new suppliers in the financial services industry, at corporate and at business areas
level. A large part of the the course is dedicated to Fintech, focussing on competitive strategic choices of newcomers (FinTech and BigTech) and of traditional financial institutions (incumbents). Traditional lectures, seminars, business cases and project works are the teaching methods used.
Lectures and seminars are carried out by Professor Previati and other academics
and practitioners.

Obiettivi di sostenibilità

  • 4 Istruzione di qualità
  • 5 Parità di genere
  • 8 Lavoro dignitoso e crescita economica
  • 9 Imprese, innovazione e infrastrutture
  • 12 Consumo e produzione responsabili
  • 16 Pace, giustizia e istituzioni solide
  • 1 Sconfiggere la povertà
  • 2 Sconfiggere la fame
  • 3 Salute e benessere
  • 10 Ridurre le disuguaglianze
  • 13 Lotta contro il cambiamento climatico
  • 17 Partnership per gli obiettivi

Informazioni utili

Per questo insegnamento non sono pubblicate informazioni aggiuntive. Materiale didattico e documenti si trovano sulla piattaforma del corso.

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