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Resolution of distressed banks represents one of the major cornerstones of the post-crisis financial regulation. It should let shareholders and long-term unsecured (bail-inable) creditors bear the...

Bank resolutions and specifically bail-ins are among the most complicated and contentious issues of banking law, in the EU and elsewhere.. Bearing the potential to directly affect thousands of...

I recently published two related working papers that scrutinize the effectiveness of the bail-in tool in the European bank resolution framework. I find that the regime, even after the prospected...

'Bank Resolution Regimes: What Next?' is a one-day conference that examines the new bank resolution regime under the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and the new requirements that banks have to...

Bank resolution is key to avoiding a repetition of the global financial crisis in which failing financial institutions had to be bailed out with taxpayers’ money. It permits the recapitalisation of...

There is an interesting symmetry in the two leading EU cases concerning the legality of measures to tackle the financial crisis. In Pringle the argument was that the European Stability Mechanism was...