The regulation of the outsourcing of banking and financial services has taken on increasing importance since the issuance of the EBA guidelines in February 2019, driven in recent years by digitalisation and the recent pandemic event, both phenomenal accelerators that have forced banking operators to outsource to companies specialising above all in technology, the only ones able to mature internally and offer their customers expertise at the same speed and quality as the market. Regulators, both national and European, have today only just begun to intercept this phenomenon, introducing into the current fragmented and complex regulations, a series of procedural and contractual constraints and provisions in a context, however, that is still very dynamic and changeable and in which the need for an extension of the regulatory perimeter to include technology companies is clearly emerging.

This volume is intended for all banking practitioners and consultants who are interested in having an up-to-date, organic and systematic overview of the banking and financial outsourcing discipline, thanks to the expertise and experience in the field of the authors, each of whom represents excellence in the academic, advisory, regulatory and in-house fields in which they operate.

SAVINO CASAMASSIMA, a lawyer in Milan, has been working for several years as a manager and in-house counsel at international banks and fintech companies. He graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) in 2003 in International dispute resolution from Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of numerous publications on commercial and banking law, as well as a speaker at conferences on the same subjects. He has always been passionate about regulatory and banking issues, curious and always open to internationalism and the discovery of new solutions and points of view.

MASSIMILIANO NICOTRA is senior partner of Qubit Law Firm S.t.a. and has been dealing with technology law for over twenty years. A Data Protection Officer for multinational companies, he is an adjunct professor in "Fundamentals and Evolution of Digital Administration". Coordinator of the Privacy and Compliance section of the Centre for Economic and Legal Research and Vice President of the Strategic Committee of the Research Centre on Digital Administration at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Management and Law.