Consob, the Italian Corporate Governance Committee and Assonime present the event on 'Corporate Governance in Italy – Flexibility and Proportionality of the Rules: Market Developments and Quality of Governance', to be held on 16 September from 09:30 at the Consob Auditorium, Via C. Monteverdi 35, Rome.

During the event, the following will be presented:

- the CONSOB Report on the corporate governance of listed Italian companies, which provides evidence regarding ownership structures, corporate bodies, general meetings and related-party transactions, based on data drawn from supervisory statistical reports and publicly available information;

- the Report by the Italian Corporate Governance Committee, which assesses the state of implementation of the Corporate Governance Code and sets out a number of recommendations to companies for its more effective application;

- the Assonime-Emittenti Titoli Report, which provides an in-depth analysis of corporate governance in Italian listed companies in the light of the guidelines set out in the Corporate Governance Code.

View the full programme for the event.

Attendance in person is free of charge subject to room capacity, provided you register in advance: https://www.consob.it/web/area-pubblica/iscrizione-seminari.

The event will also be streamed live via the following link: https://youtube.com/live/Flqgw8FZiOk.

Consob has ordered the blocking of 10 websites through which unauthorised investment services and activities relating to financial instruments were being carried out, and one website that advertised an unauthorised trading platform.

Below is the list of websites ordered to be taken down:

• "Zynerix" (website https://zynerix.net and related pages https://client.zynerix.net and https://webtrader.zynerix.net);
• "Royalassetmanagement" (website https://rlassetmanagement.com and associated pages https://client.rlassetmanagement.com and https://webtrader.rlassetmanagement.com);
• "Interactive" (website https://interactive-inv.com and associated page https://client.interactive-inv.com);
• "Puprime" (websites www.puprime.com, https://it.puprime.com, https://it.puprimepartners.com and related pages https://myaccount.puprime.com and https://myaccount.puprime.online);
• "Rocketprobit" – "flintmoor.buzz" (websites https://rocketprobit.com, https://rocketprobitit.com, https://rocketprobitai.digital and https://tekvio.digital, as well as the associated advertising website https://flintmoor.buzz).

This brings the total number of websites blocked by Consob since July 2019 – when the Authority was granted the power to order the blocking of websites operated by unauthorised financial intermediaries – to 1,816. Of these, 233 relate to crypto-related activities.

The measures adopted by Consob can be viewed on the website www.consob.it. Internet service providers operating in Italy are currently in the process of blocking these websites. For technical reasons, it may take a few days for the blocking to take effect.

It is important that savers exercise the utmost diligence in making fully informed investment decisions, adopting common-sense practices that are essential for safeguarding their savings: among these, checking in advance – for websites offering investment services and crypto-assets – that the operator through which they are investing is authorised and, for offers of financial products and crypto-assets, that the prospectus or white paper has been published.

Consob also draws attention to the evolving nature of deceptive practices that exploit the internet to steal users' money and personal data: there has been an increase in the use of new tools, such as emails and ‘cloned' websites, fake profiles of politicians and celebrities, and content generated by artificial intelligence systems – such as images, voices or videos – with the aim of persuading investors to make harmful investment decisions.

To this end, Consob urges investors to consult the dedicated information sheet containing advice on how to protect themselves against financial fraud in the age of artificial intelligence and reminds them that its website features the 'Watch out for scams!' section, where useful information is available to warn investors against fraudulent financial schemes.