Over the past decade, the Single Supervisory Mechanism focused on making banks safer, resulting in stronger banks but limited euro area cross-border integration. We argue that overbanking hinders both cross-border integration for the EU and the development and integration of capital markets. In...

The events of March 2023 in the United States and Switzerland showed, once again, that banking systems remain fragile. The three US bank that failed were together close to the largest failure in history, and the failure of Credit Suisse, a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), was...

This paper discusses the effect of cross-border deposits (CBDs) for the stability of the relation between monetary aggregates and nominal GDP in the five largest EC countries. The analysis is developed in terms of “information content” of alternative money definitions (including or excluding...

The launch of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the new European legislation on micro and macroprudential instruments (Capital Requirements Directive IV and Capital Requirements Regulation) open important new prospects for banking supervision in Europe. This article reviews opportunities and...