Speakers

Having graduated from Rome University in economics, Stefano started his career with Crédit Agricole at the head office in Paris, dealing with the foreign subsidiaries of the group. He subsequently joined Intesa Sanpaolo where he worked for planning, CIB and treasury. In the latter position he was involved in structuring proprietary securitisations and covered bonds, heading the management of all the CB programmes of Intesa Sanpaolo. Eventually he took responsibility of supranational and intragroup funding. Stefano spent recent years in Brussels, as head of the european regulatory policy, entrusted with the analysis and advocacy on the EU banking and financial markets legislative files, including prudential, crisis management, securitisation, covered bonds, retail and financial markets. He is now head of regulatory impact assessment, contributing to the activities of the institutional affairs department of Intesa Sanpaolo, with the responsibility of assessing the impact of banking and financial regulation. He is an active participant to the various working groups of the European Covered Bond Council – notably he is the moderator of the European Secured Notes (ESN) task force. In January 2024 Stefano was appointed chairman of the ECBC. He also participates to boards and working groups of other EU banking associations representing Intesa Sanpaolo.