1. Introduction -- 2. General Observations -- 3. FinTech and Market-based Financing -- 4. European Approaches to FinTech: The Role of Regulation and the Evolution of Supervision -- 5. FinTech, Chain Transactions and Open Banking -- 6. FinTech Firms -- 7. FinTech and Money -- 8. FinTech, RegTech...

Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of...

European Banking-M&A — Die Kapitalmarktperspektive: Definition und Abgrenzung -- Aufbau der empirischen Analyse zur Bestimmung der Aktienkursreaktionen -- Aktienkursreaktionen auf Übernahmen börsennotierter Targets -- Aktienkursreaktionen auf Übernahmen nicht börsennotierter Targets --...

Minsky's institutional analysis of the development of the economy and how financial regulation fits in it -- Recent proposals of change in financial regulation inspired by Minsky -- Basel III : the revised capital requirements, the leverage ratio, and total loss absorbing capacity -- Two...

This paper is motivated by the European Union strategy to secure competitiveness for Europe in the globalising world by focussing on technological supremacy (the Lisbon - agenda). Parallel to that, the EU Commission is trying to take a more economic approach to competition policy in general and...