On January 24 2017, the conference "Defence Belongs to Humans - La miglior difesa è la conoscenza", organised by YOROI and sponsored by Bernoni Grant Thornton will be held at Area Pergolesi in Via Pergolesi 8, Milano. The event will focus on cybersecurity updates while presenting the outcome of the survey “Cybersecurity: the level of understanding and awareness about digital vulnerability” commissioned by Yoroi and conducted in Italy by Euromedia Research.
On 19 December 2016 a conference on VAT aspects of e-commerce, organized by the VAT Commission of the Roll of Chartered Accountants, will be held at the premises of the Roll in Rome. Mario Spera, Principal at Bernoni Grant Thornton will intervene in the conference.
The budget bill for 2017, within the “Industry 4.0” strategy, will renew those provisions allowing “super-amortization”, and introduce “hyper-amortisation” for some specific capital goods, in order to incentivize the technological update of Italian businesses, their competition on domestic and international market and, more generally, economic recovery.
To successfully implement the changes needed, a change in the profile of bank employees is also needed. Besides the technological innovations there are a series of regulatory innovations. Control and compliance functions are increasingly important, but the organisational challenge is the most difficult as it will also imply staff layoffs.