New issue of the Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions journal

The editorial team of Virtus Interpress is happy to publish a new issue (volume 13, issue 3) of the journal Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions. All studies are inspired by changes and innovations that contribute to the advancement of science.

The issue is represented by studies from the USA, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, Egypt, and Greece which investigate such relevant topics as corporate governance, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), artificial intelligence (AI), financial reporting, IFRS, accounting, ESG performance, capital structure, credit rating, cost of debt, RegTech, FinTech, management, innovation, finances, start-ups, liquidity risks, traditional banks, Islamic banks, board of directors, board governance, board structures, network operating models, networked governance, governance 4.0, COVID-19, etc.

The full issue of the journal is available at the following link .

Mfon Akpan and Henry Ugochukwu Ukwu adopt a quantitative approach to provide a comprehensive analysis of the challenges associated with NFTs, including their impact on the art market, risks related to ownership rights, and proper financial statement treatment.

Valentina Cioli, Alessandro Giannozzi, Lucrezia Pescatori, and Oliviero Roggi investigate the relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) variables and credit rating, conducting an analysis on a sample of 1191 US-listed companies in 2021.

Dean Blomson addresses the issue of growing evidence that conventional board models are approaching their use-by-date and may no longer be fit-for-purpose and examines the relevance, contribution, role and operation of a networked board.

Luca Battanta and Francesca Magli focus on RegTech’s startups in Switzerland adopting an approach already used for case studies in the FinTech area by means of exploratory investigation through interviews and literature review.

Hassan M. Hafez aims to analyse systematic and unsystematic factors that affect the liquidity risk of Egyptian banks during the period 2000–2022, using dynamic panel data and a generalized method of moments estimator.

The issue ends with Georgios L. Thanasas’s review of the book titled “Financial Literacy in Italy: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Proposals” by G. P. Stella, U. Filotto, & E. M. Cervellati.

We are grateful to all the scholars who have contributed to this issue, whose highly topical objectives relate to the diverse and new frontiers that the world of finance must continually address to stay abreast of the times and to reflect on the practical, managerial and regulatory implications that these constant changes require.