This paper discusses the main findings of the Detailed Assessment of Observance of the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems-International Organization of Securities Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) for the European Union. Euroclear Bank's risk framework is generally...

This paper argues that in the European Union (EU) deposit insurance funds are too difficult to use in bank resolution and too easy to use outside resolution. The paper proposes reforms in three areas for the effective management of bank failures of small and medium-sized banks in the European...