By Country: Italy

Government programmes

• Economic and Financial Education: Knowing for Making Decisions, Banca d'Italia (Bank of Italy) Financial Education Working Group
• Financial Education for schoolchildren, Ministry of Public Education and the Bank of Italy
• Investor education, Commissione Nazionale Per Le Societa E La Borsa (Consob)
• Consumers information, Italian Securities supervisor ISVAP
• Investors communication, Treasury Debt Office, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance

Private sector programmes

• PattiChiari Consortium - Italian Banking Association (ABI) and its committment in spreading financial education in Italy: as of 2003, ABI has pursued a distinctive strategy for improving transparency, comparability and for helping clients in making educated choices. These tasks are realized through “PattiChiari Consortium”, a separate legal entity, which provides customers with simple comparison tools to help them to better understand financial products and make informed choices and financial education programs. In accordance with this mission the Consortium launched several national financial education campaigns following a life-cycle approach (for young, adults and older):

  - Dialogue Campaign

  - Experience Territorial Campaigns

  - Io e l’economia (Economics and me) 

  - Financial education online tools

  - Partnership Development

  - PattiChiari con l’economia (PattiChiari with the economy)

  The PattiChiari Consortium, in collaboration with The European House-Ambrosetti, is carrying out an independent and in-depth study aimed  at  developing  an innovative index to measure the level of Financial Capability in Italy. The current study is the third phase of a long-term project whose objective is to identify suitable strategies in order to increase and spread financial culture in Italy. The elaboration of a measurement system of Financial Culture was included among the Recommendations launched with the studies “Financial Education in Italy – Considerations and Proposals for improving the Country’s Financial Culture” and “Financial Education in Italy – The current scenario and eventual areas for improvement”.

• Financial education, Associazione Nazionale Promotori Finanziari (ANASF), www.anasf.it

• Investire per il futuro, an educational website by Assogestioni, the Italian asset managers association: http://www.assogestioni.it