This paper analyzes the Judgement rendered on July 15 2021 by the European Court of Justice in Case 911/19 - Fédération Bancaire Française v. Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. The Judgment is of paramount importance: it has, indeed, the potential to affect apparently...

Section I: The Broad Picture1 Is the European Union going to help us overcome the COVID-19 crisis (Danny Busch)2 COVID-19 and European banks: no time for lawyers (Wolf-Georg Ringe)3 The COVID-19 crisis and financial regulation (Eddy Wymeersch)4 Culutral reforms in Irish banks. Walking the walk...

The harmonization of the European regulations on collective investment schemes (CIS) – with UCITS regulation first and, most recently, with the AIFM Directive - has expanded the areas of operation of asset managers. In particular, Alternative Investment Funds are emerging as increasingly...

Investment services and activities, on the one side, and collective investment management, on the other, are two of the main silos in which capital markets legislation is currently articulated. They have different origins and originally stem from different needs: investment funds were first...

After almost five years from its entry into force, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (“SSM”) established by Regulation 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013, in force since November 4, 2014 (“SSM Regulation”) truly stands out as one of the most interesting achievements of recent EU legislation....