  Flavour mixing and CP violation as measured in weak decays and mixing of
neutral mesons are a fundamental tool to test the Standard Model (SM) and to
search for new physics. New analyses performed at the LHC experiment open an
unprecedented insight into the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) metrology and
new evidence for rare decays. Important progress has also been achieved in
theoretical calculations of several hadronic quantities with a remarkable
reduction of the uncertainties. This improvement is essential since previous
studies of the Unitarity Triangle did show that possible contributions from new
physics, if any, must be tiny and could easily be hidden by theoretical and
experimental errors. Thanks to the experimental and theoretical advances, the
CKM picture provides very precise SM predictions through global analyses. We
present here the results of the latest global SM analysis performed by the
UTfit collaboration including all the most updated inputs from experiments,
lattice QCD and phenomenological calculations.
