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🧀 Italian bank Credem Banca is known for its parmesan cheese-backed loans.  🐄 The regional lender, located in the cheese-rich terroir of Emilia-Romagna, stores thousands of giant parmesan wheels worth millions of euros in a warehouse it owns. 😎 Sitting on €66bn of assets, Credem proudly claims it has never lost a penny on any parmesan-backed loan. 🎯 But the bank also has a sterling reputation for sound governance and risk assessment. 🔢 The bank boasts a gross bad-loan ratio of two per cent, compared with an industry benchmark of 2.7 per cent in Italy and 2.3 per cent in Europe. Net bad loans, after accounting for provisions, make up just 0.16 per cent of Credem’s loan bank compared with one per cent in the whole banking system in Italy. 🇮🇹 Giovanni Legorano spoke with Credem's chief compliance officer Davide Morandi about the successful overhaul of its compliance function. 👀 Read more https://lnkd.in/eRcHv9jB #riskandcompliance #compliance #bankingindustry #Italy

“We became the ‘yes’ department, which sometimes has to say ‘no’” - Banking Risk and Regulation

“We became the ‘yes’ department, which sometimes has to say ‘no’” - Banking Risk and Regulation

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