Patterns of flavour violation at the dawn of the LHC era

The experimental success of the predictions of the Standard Model in the flavour sector suggests that New Physics should possess a highly non-generic flavour structure. Different approaches to this idea of Minimal Flavour Violation have been proposed and studied during the last years. At last, the LHC provides the possibility to test these patterns from different points of view, i.e. through the direct search of New Physics at the high energy frontier, and through the indirect constraints at the intensity frontier of precision measurements.