Finance should correspond to ETHICS

Finance should correspond to ETHICS

On July 9 in Embassy of Italy in Russia GEEC took part in a presentation of abook "As money walked on the world, the Italian history" by Svetlana Reznik.
The book is intended for secondary school studentsand introduces to children such concepts as money, profit, marketing, exchange rate, and various aspects of business and banking.

General partner of the edition - UBI Gruppo and Ferdinando Pellazzo - co-author and a leader of the book successful campaign. Important point that modern bankers and businessmen actively promote education in finance and banking of future generations. Support of Embassy of Italy in Russia became especially priceless. Mr Luigi Cancestre supported idea of the book and wrote a preface to it.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy in Russia Mr. Cesare Maria Ragagliniin his welcome speech noted that education of children is a primary target of modern society!

Serggio Passoni, Gruppo UBI Bancadepartment director, shared that the UBI Group has a long-lasting activities in Russia, supports publishing projects, concerts of classical music with participation of the Italian musicians, carries out business summits and receptions devoted to strengthening of the Russian-Italian relationship.

The book publication became a serious event in relationship of Russia and Italy. We have to think of the future and understand where we are moving!

Andrey Yermolov — the Central Bank of Russia.

The Central Bank of Russia has a number of interconnections with work of the Italian banks in Russia.

Financial education of citizens is an integral part of the Central Bank activities. Financial education is a basic knowledge closely connected with historical aspect. Banking sources, the word "bank"itself originates from the Italian word banco. The book language is interesting and catching which is important for showing that finance is difficult, but not boring.

The introduction of the book by Luigi Concestre, the financial advisor of Embassy of Italy. The bookcovers the aspects of Italian financial system and reveals two main subjects:

Finance has to correspond to ethics, trust is the main aspect.
The important point in financial education to show that the more informed customer is the more protected from the crises he becomes.
Ferdinando Pellazzo wrote an afterword, having noted that all of young people will be connected with banks in either way as private clients, or representing the companies as employees or as bankers.

The author of the book Svetlana Reznik thanked all who took part in work on the book.

The book describes the key role of Italians in origin of the world banking system, where in 1407 the first bank occurred. Readers will be able to get acquainted with history of banking system, understand terms as "balance", "bill", "liquidity" and others. Finally children will be able to esteem the beauty and complexity of banker’s job.

Attendees:

Seda Sarkisovna Nasibyan,

Pavel Alekseevich Medvedev,

Ferdinando Pelazzo,

Irina Zagrabyan,

Faina Yakovlevna Zakharova,

Galina Yurevna Fomina,

Elman Mekhtiyev.

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РАНХиГС
Национальный банковский клуб Ассоциация российских банков
FederBio
Российский союз промышленников и предпринимателей
Московская ассоциация предпринимателей
National Union of grain producers
Russian Orthodox Church
Globethics