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  • Financial Regulation
02 Dec 2021
5 min to read

Climate Change and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Sarah Jane Hlásková Murphy | Livio Stracca

Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge of our time and central banks are called to play their part, even if they are not at the forefront of this effort. At the same time, it is not always...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
03 Aug 2020
9 min to read

The Coronavirus Crisis and ECB Banking Supervision: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Andrea Enria

On 28 July 2020, ECB Banking Supervision published its first assessment of the potential vulnerabilities of the euro area banking sector in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Also on...

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  • Financial Regulation
25 Jun 2020
7 min to read

Struggling About the Final Say in EU Law: The ECB Ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court

Christian Calliess

The PSPP judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC), concerning the European Central Banks (ECB) public purchase programme of sovereign bonds, is only at first glance a ‘bang on the...
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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
22 May 2020
4 min to read

Covid-19: No Time for Lawyers

Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law

The economic fallout from Covid-19 requires extraordinary efforts from governments and central banks around the globe. Many of these emergency measures are controversial. Legal pitfalls abound, but...

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  • COVID-19
  • Financial Regulation
10 Apr 2020
4 min to read

Financial Regulation Suspensions in Times of Crisis

Iris H-Y Chiu | Andreas Kokkinis | Andrea Miglionico

Post-crisis developments in financial regulation have led to extensive expansion in the regulatory perimeter as well as the imposition of demanding standards for prudential regulation in conduct of...

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  • Financial Regulation
01 Oct 2018

Oops! … We do it again. Attack on the banking union in the German constitutional court and why even ardent Europeans may learn a (limited) lesson from it

Tobias H. Tröger

Conventional wisdom suggests that the U.S. is the ‘litigation nation’. However, when it comes to disputes concerning euro area integration, Germans also seem to be very gung ho to slug it out in the...

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  • Financial Regulation
16 Jun 2017

How Not To Do Banking Law in the 21st Century - The Judgement of the European General Court (EGC) in the Case T-122/15 – Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg ‒ Förderbank v European Central Bank (ECB)

Tobias H. Tröger

I. Background The Judgement of the EGC in the Case T-122/15 – Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg ‒ Förderbank v European Central Bank (ECB) is the first statement of the European judiciary on the...
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  • Financial Regulation
13 Apr 2017

Proposals for reforming the SSM with a European Banking Act and a ‘CRR Light’

Matthias Lehmann

The Single Supervisory Mechanism ('SSM') puts the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) in charge of supervising the significant banks in the Eurozone. This mechanism however has serious structural...

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  • Financial Regulation
07 Dec 2016

Intermediate EU Parent Undertaking Requirement for non-EU G-SIBs

Heinrich Nemeczek | Sebastian Pitz

Introduction On 23 November 2016, the European Commission published a package of proposals amending the Capital Requirements Directive and associated Regulation (CRD and CRR, together CRD 4), the...

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  • Financial Regulation
01 Nov 2016

The European Central Bank’s Duty of Care for the Unity and Integrity of the Internal Market

Pierre Schammo

As a result of the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (‘SSM’), the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) was vested with significant supervisory tasks in the prudential field. The ECB...

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  • Financial Regulation
16 Sep 2016

Necessity vs Legality: Is the ECB Running or Ruining Europe?

Ioannis Glinavos

In a recent article in the FT, Mark Mazower argued that Germany’s emergence as the dominant member state has left its imprint on European institutions and that the creation of the Euro has shifted...
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06 Sep 2016

The United States dominates global investment banking: Does it matter for Europe?

Charles Goodhart | Dirk Schoenmaker

1. Introduction Europe’s banks are in retreat from playing a global investment banking role. It is a consequence of the regulatory impositions of recent years, notably of the ring-fencing...

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  • Financial Regulation
24 May 2016

The Impact of the Current Fiscal Crisis in the Euro Area on the Greek Banking System and the Measures adopted to Safeguard its Stability: an Institutional, Supervisory and Regulatory Perspective

Christos V. Gortsos

I have recently published a study examining the impact of the current fiscal crisis in the Euro area on the Greek banking system, and the measures adopted to preserve its stability. It is divided...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
13 Apr 2016

The Euro Area, its Regulation, and Impact on Non-Euro Member States

Paul Craig, St John's College | Menelaos Markakis

There is a very considerable literature on the internal market. It is sophisticated and diverse, and, as might be expected, there are a plethora of views on most central issues. Our chapter on ‘The...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
25 Mar 2016

ICYMI - ECB publishes Regulation and Guide on Harmonisation of Options and Discretion in Banking Supervision

OBLB Editors

The European Central Bank yesterday published a regulation and a guide on harmonisation of options and discretion in banking supervision, which it described as "an important step in harmonising the...

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