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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...