Between September 25 and 26, 2025, Venice hosted C.r.e.d.it. 2025 – Emerging Global Financial Systems: Exploring Polarization, Systemic Risks, Innovation, and Sustainable Solutions, the 24th edition of the international conference dedicated to risk analysis and management, was featured this year as a side event of the Sustainability Biennale 2025 organized by Venice Sustainability Foundation (VSF). Held at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, the initiative was co-organized by the Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, GRETA Associati, and the PNRR GRINS project, gathering academics, finance professionals, and industry leaders from around the world.
Throughout the proceedings, discussions underscored how the convergence and combination of contemporary risks – ranging from geopolitics to climate risk, and from social dynamics to energy shifts – do not merely add up, but produce a compounding multiplier effect on their overall impact. In an increasingly complex global scenario, speakers reaffirmed the vital need for informed, skilled, and forward-looking risk management capable of analyzing interdependencies and operating with highly specialized expertise.
The 2025 edition opened with a session focused on the insurance sector, highlighting the imperative for closer integration between the insurance and financial systems to tackle current challenges. Discussions also stressed the key role of states alongside financial markets, as well as the need for a paradigm shift in a landscape marked by growing dualism between West and East, with direct implications for diverging visions of sustainability and technological competition.
The conference program comprised over ten discussion panels covering pivotal topics such as banking sector decarbonization strategies, green finance developments, the impact of energy costs and systemic risks on mortgages and businesses, the integration of finance, insurance, and public governance to manage complex crises, deep tech applications in healthcare, geopolitical risk management, and climate disaster prevention. In the closing debate, participants emphasized that more mature risk awareness and an integrated management approach can turn challenges into actionable opportunities, guiding both innovation and sustainable solutions.
