Since 2008, enormous efforts have been made worldwide to draft rules to prevent a reoccurence of the devastating financial effects of that year. In the process, bank business has been laid open to intense public and government scrutiny, and regulation of banking has grown to spectacular...

Bank Recovery and Resolution' is a book that organises a highly complex legal system into patterns and action plans that can be applied in virtually any eventuality likely to arise in cases where bank business is of central significance. In light of the colossal efforts that have been made...

Foreword / François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton -- The special nature of banks and its challenges for competition policy / Ioannis Kokkoris -- Competition, stability and moral hazard: the tension between financial regulation and State aid control / Joanna Gray and...

On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.