The Banking Act 2009 has introduced a special regime to deal with failing banks in the UK. A feature of the legislation is the regulator's power to trigger the regime by determining whether or not a bank is likely to fail. The use of the Act with Dunfermline Building Society has highlighted the...

National governments have been forced to use an extraordinary amount of public resources and techniques to contain the global financial crisis (“the crisis”). This Article analyzes the role of the U.K. Tripartite Authorities in dealing with the crisis - both the “ordinary” measures, such...

In front of the first signals of the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the Bank of England has immediately intervened trying to limit the negative impact of the measures adopted by the Government to reduce the spread of the virus Accordingly, the British monetary authority has...