Acknowledgement

I would like to say thank you to my family, my wife Antonella and my child Federico, and to my parents and brother for their support and love. This work, and all the rest, would have been simply impossible without them.

I especially want to thank all the people at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book and for all their great work on the long road from drafting to publishing.

I extend my heartfelt thanks to my friends and my colleagues at Iccrea Banca who have supported my work over the past several years.