The shares traded on the Italian stock market MTA are divided into Blue Chip, Star and Standard, depending on the size and requirements met by each of them.

In particular, the electronic stock market MTA is divided into 3 segments:

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The U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, who was appointed to this position by Barack Obama in January 2009, had requested that information relevant to payments made to Goldman Sachs and a dozen other major banks in the context of rescuing banks in November 2008 would not be released publicly as required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulator of securities in the United States. The insurer American International Group (AIG) Recall the events. American International Group (AIG), which in 2007 was the biggest insurance company in the world in terms of market capitalization, was at the heart of the rescue of the financial system because of its insurance portfolio of credit (credit default swaps-CDS). A CDS is an insurance policy