The European Commission's approach to the supervision and restructuring of the EU banking system has numerous shortcomings. As an alternative, this article proposes a European Resolution Authority and a European Restructuring Fund for systemically important banks and the implementation of a levy...

More than l00 episodes of bank insolvencies have been documented by Caprio and Klingebiel (1996) for the period from 1980 to 1995 - and this does not include the Asian crisis. About 75 percent of these were classified as major insolvencies with potential systemic implications. The overwhelming...

Die Problematik des Bankgeheimnisses geriet durch die Terroranschläge von New York wieder in den Blick der Öffentlichkeit. Die EU hatte schon im Juni 2000 beschlossen, gegen Ende der Dekade unter ihren Mitgliedsländern ein System von Kontrollmitteilungen zu etablieren. Welche Widerstände...