This study develops on the status quo in relation to the assessment of resolvability of credit institutions and banking groups in the Banking Union and the removal of substantive impediments to their resolvability under the EU legal framework governing banking resolution, as in force, taking due...

This study discusses recent and current conditions relating to financial stability in the euro area, developing, in particular, on the impact of the current “inflation crisis” on financial stability vulnerabilities. Furthermore, it addresses two related priorities for the Single Resolution...

(1) The fifth edition of the present study contains a further update in full of the institutional and regulatory framework governing the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) and the Single Resolution Fund (SRF). Its structure has also been revised, since the Sections of previous editions have been...

The purpose of this paper, structured in three Sections, is twofold: (a) The first is to analyse the conditions under which a group of financial firms is considered to be a ‘financial conglomerate' in accordance with the (complex) definition of this term in Article 2 (point (14)) of the...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the macro-prudential tasks assigned to the ECB within the context of the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism' (SSM), which is a major building block of the European Banking Union. It is structured in two (2) sections. Section 1 provides a general...

This article overviews systematically the provisions laid down in secondary EU law with regard to the creation of ‘Chinese walls' within the European Central Bank (the ‘ECB') after the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (the ‘SSM'), in order to ensure that the ECB carries...

Upon the launch of the European Economic and Monetary Union (the ‘EMU') on 1 January 1999, a debate opened as to which central bank would operate as lender of last resort to solvent credit institutions in the euro area: the European Central Bank (the ‘ECB'), or the national central banks...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the power of the ECB to impose administrative penalties as a supervisory authority within the context of the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism', which is a major building block of the European Banking Union. It is structured in three (3) sections....