Introduction -- Bank resolution techniques -- Bank resolution and bank groups -- Total loss absorbing capactiy -- Fundamentals of resolution authority -- Resolution of insured depoditory institutions -- Resolution of non-bank financial companies -- Resolution planning -- Resolution in the...

The central thesis of this paper is that the laws of most nations governing the ownership, transfer and pledging of securities have become obsolete and need to be modernized to reflect the modern securities holding and transfer systems. It recommends that each nation's laws be modernized to...

The “too systemically important to fail” problem is one of the most intractable problems of our time. During the financial panic of 2008, governments around the world decided to use taxpayer funds to rescue their most important financial institutions rather than allow them to be liquidated...

The resolution planning process in the United States is still evolving. A resolution plan is a plan for liquidating, reorganizing, recapitalizing or otherwise resolving a systemically important financial institution (“SIFI”) that has reached the point of insolvency, non-viability or failure....

The paper analyzes the various structural solutions proposed by regulators in the US, UK and the European Union presented as the key to solving the problem of “too big to fail” (TBTF) banks. These come in three main varieties, one in the United States (the Volcker Rule), one in the United...