AT FIRST IT looked as if Italy’s financial sector might see out the banking crisis in relatively good shape. Italian regulators have always had a reputation for being more interventionist and prescriptive than their liberal-minded counterparts in such countries as the UK, something that in the past has made bankers and regulators operating in northern Europe look down their noses at the supposedly less than progressive Italians. But that more conservative approach meant that when the banking crisis came the Italian market had more restrictive lending and investment practices than other European countries.
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