The creation of the Banking Union is likely to come with substantial implications for the governance of Eurozone banks. The European Central Bank, in its capacity as supervisory authority for systemically important banks, as well as the Single Resolution Board, under the EU Regulations...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, both resolution planning, i.e. contingency planning by both regulated institutions and public authorities in order to prepare their actions in financial crisis, and concepts for structural bank reform have been identified as possible solutions to...

As part of a broader policy agenda promoting more sustainable financial markets, legislative and policy initiatives within the European Union in recent years have explored the activation of micro-prudential requirements for banks and other financial intermediaries with a view to incentivise...

Preventing future bail-outs for large, systemically important banks while minimizing the repercussions of bank insolvencies on the stability of the financial system and the economy at large has become a key policy objective for international standard-setters as well as national and supranational...

Substantial progress has been made, both within the Eurozone and the EU generally, with regard to the legal and institutional arrangements for cross-border bank resolution. The new framework, modeled after the FSB's "Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions"...

Roughly eight years after the adoption of its legal basis, an assessment of the Single Resolution Mechanism remains difficult. With only one resolution case completed so far, a substantial part of the resolution framework has not yet been tested. While the recent inauguration of the European...