The agreement on the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is an important step to create an integrated banking system in Europe. In this article we look at the powers attributed to the ECB, from a legal perspective, in order to evaluate the SSM in the broader European architecture of banking...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the power of the ECB to impose administrative penalties as a supervisory authority within the context of the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism', which is a major building block of the European Banking Union. It is structured in three (3) sections....

The case raised in front of the EU Court of Justice by the Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg is the very first exercise of EU jurisprudence on matters concerning the new structure of EU Banking Supervision. Even if the case (decided, in May 2017, by the General Court - case T-122/15) is now...

Due to the international dimension of the financial sector within the EU and beyond, domestically oriented macroprudential policies have the potential to create material cross-border spillover effects. This occasional paper provides a detailed overview of the academic and empirical literature on...