Emerging Risks in Banking and Finance: Technological Disruption, Climate Change, and Geopolitical Tensions

Dear Colleagues,

In an increasingly volatile and complex global context, the banking and finance sector faces a range of emerging risks that challenge traditional assessment and management models. Digital transformation, climate change, and geopolitical tensions are redefining risk maps, with direct and indirect effects on the solvency of economic actors, the resilience of the financial system, and its ability to support sustainable growth.

This Special Issue aims to gather original theoretical and empirical contributions exploring the impact of these phenomena on financial markets, risk management strategies, banking regulation, and corporate finance. The goal is to foster interdisciplinary reflection that offers innovative tools for understanding and addressing new systemic and idiosyncratic risks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Climate risk and ESG integration in credit and investment models;
• The effects of geopolitical tensions on financial stability and capital flows;
• Sustainable finance, green transition, and decarbonization strategies;
• New metrics for assessing financial and environmental resilience;
• The impacts of global risks on central bank behavior and the policy mix.

Prof. Dr. Eliana Angelini
Dr. Elisa Di Febo
Guest Editors

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