With the institutional setting for the Banking Union having been established and become fully operational, market participants, supervisory staff, and academics are gradually getting to terms with the reality of the new two-tier system of supervisory and resolution authorities within the...

Just as other jurisdictions across the globe, German private and regulatory law is still struggling to get to terms with the challenges created by virtual currencies such as BitCoin or Ether. While some recent adjustments to the legal framework for financial regulation, ahead of incoming EU...