As part of the corporate management process, and in accordance with the provisions of the regulations in effect, BPER Banca prevents and combats, on an ongoing basis, the risk of money laundering and terrorism financing, understood as “the risk arising from the violation of legal, regulatory and self-regulatory provisions functional to the prevention of use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering, terrorist financing or financing of programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the risk of involvement in episodes of money laundering, terrorist financing or financing of programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction”.