Not least due to the relatively short period of existence of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the transparency of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the SSM has not attracted significant attention from legal scholarship. This contribution seeks to close this gap to some extent by mapping...

Banks always have someone watching over their shoulders, gauging compliance with law, evaluating risk, and correcting behavior. This is bank supervision. We expect a lot from bank supervision. It is supposed to ensure that banks operate in a safe and sound manner, mitigate systemic risk in the...

The European Commission's draft Directive on Bank Recovery and Resolution includes a framework for intra-group financial assistance in financial groups. This paper examines the nature of banking groups and the policy arguments for and against a regulated framework for intra-group support....

Kryzys finansowy i gospodarczy, który wybuchł w 2007-2008 r. skłonił rządy, UE i instytucje międzynarodowe do podjęcia prób wskazania jego źródeł, analiz przebiegu i ustanowienia mechanizmów mających zapobiec powtórzeniu takim sytuacjom. Okazało się bowiem, że w warunkach...

One of the most prominent European bank failures in the global financial crisis was the collapse of the Icelandic bank Landsbanki, where foreign depositors were left without coverage by the Icelandic deposit guarantee scheme. The present note discusses a recent judgment by the Court of the...

Developing economies can strengthen their financial systems by implementing the main elements of global regulatory reform. But to build an effective prudential framework, they may need to adapt international standards taking into account the sophistication and size of their financial...

This paper examines the impact of cybercrime and hacking events on equity market volatility across publicly traded corporations. The volatility influence of these cybercrime events is shown to be dependent on the number of clients exposed across all sectors and the type of the cyber security...

This paper studies the regulatory issues related to the “Sovereign Wealth Funds” (SWFs), described as “special purpose” government investment vehicles.Concerns have been expressed due to SWFs limited disclosure and transparency and their multiple investment objectives.While the risk of a...

One of the main objectives of transnational banking regulation over the past two decades has been the standardization of regulatory practices and the allocation of regulatory powers to minimize the regulatory burden for banks. The resulting division of labor between home and host country...

Banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Expanding the geographic footprint of an organization's profit-making activities changes the geographic pattern of its exposure to loss in ways that are hard for regulators and supervisors to observe. This paper tests and confirms the...