Take the transparency operation for the money changers. The register of those who carry out this activity can now be consulted online on the Oam website (the body for the management of the lists of financial agents and credit brokers): a total of 92 subjects with a total of 282 branches on the territory.
In addition to the names of the subjects registered (52 legal persons and 40 natural persons) the register also publishes any suspension measures against the member, as well as any other measure affecting the exercise of the activity.
The published data also make it possible to construct a geographical cross-section of the category: the operational branches are concentrated in Lazio (over 25%, mainly in Rome); Lombardy follows with 18% (more than half in Milan), Veneto with 13% due almost exclusively to Venice, Tuscany with 12,4% and Campania with 10,3%.
The geographical distribution changes with regard to the registered office of the 92 registered subjects: if Lazio remains in the lead with almost 24%, the second place goes to Campania (16,3%), followed by Tuscany and Veneto (about 8,7 .5,4% of subjects) while Lombardy ranks only in seventh place with 7,6%, after Sicily (6,5%) and Calabria (XNUMX%).
With reference to the legal nature of the 92 members, 57% are legal persons (who hold 85% of the operational branches) compared to 43% of natural persons. In any case, reality is extremely fragmented: almost all of the registered subjects (over 93%) in fact operate with fewer than 5 operational branches.
The Oam acquired the Registry management competence in the middle of last year. Members are required to periodically transmit to the Body all exchange transactions carried out: this is useful data for the acquisition, by the various competent Authorities, of information on the size and operation of the market for means of payment in foreign currency , also for purposes of monitoring and analyzing financial flows and to facilitate
criminal investigations in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
