Presentation of the E-Encyclopedia of Banking, Stock Exchange and Finance

The Board of Directors of Assonebb has created the e-dictionary of Banking, Stock Exchange and Finance after the precious inheritance left by Prof. Francesco Parrillo in the form of a “Dictionary of Banking, Stock Exchange and Finance”; the latter comprised over 4600 terms. Assonebb has decided to start the collection of in depth analyses as to create the e-Encyclopediaof Banking, Stock Exchange and Finance: Bankpedia.

Given the widespread use of the English language in the world of economics and finance, our goal today is to move towards the e- Encyclopedia of Banking, Stock Exchange and Finance also in this language.

Published for the first time at the end of the 1970s, the Dictionary underwent a number of reviews, the last of which dates back to the beginning of 2005, when the Assonebb edited the current version  of the e-Dictionary, under the coordination of Prof. Gian Carlo Loraschi, in a joint effort with Milano Finanza (www.milanofinanza.it).

The initiative to turn the Dictionary into an e-Encyclopedia addresses the needs of market players, dealers, practicioners in the field as well as youths who intend to specialize in monetary, banking and financial subjects. The Dictionary entries are merely the historical starting point of the long work that we are determined to carry out and, therefore, we ask our readers to act not only as users, but also as actors in the transformation, suggesting corrections and integrations to the existing entries and proposing new ones.

The development of a structure linking up with the websites that deal with this subject will allow us to accept the suggestions coming from the web, in addition to the suggestions made from within the Assonebb team, comprising for the most part, operators of the sector, and the scientific committee.
The completion of the Encyclopedia as a whole, including existing entries or missing terms, may be commissioned by centers interested in the dissemination and development of the financial culture. This would help limiting the unavoidable resources’ constraints that emerge, and would speed up the finalization of this work.

Prof. Paolo Savona,          President of Assonebb
Prof. Rainer Masera,        Chairman of the Scientific Committee
Prof. ssa Chiara Oldani,   Scientific Director