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17 Jun 2020
6 min to read

COVID-19 Crisis, Credit Crunch, and Contingent Contracting

Mo Sasitorn Suksaisakulsakdi

The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and the ensuing containment measures have spurred monetary and fiscal responses aimed at alleviating the economic impacts of the health crisis, some of which are...

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19 May 2020
6 min to read

Will the Covid Crisis Force us to Reevaluate the Architecture of Banking Law (or Just Expose an Already Occurred Transformation)?

Piergiuseppe Spolaore

From ‘direct controls’ on banks to ‘prudential’ supervision In other times, the decision of a supervisory authority to prohibit dividend distributions to banks’ shareholders would not have made the...
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  • Financial Regulation
14 Jan 2020
3 min to read

Taking Stock of Bank Regulatory Reforms Ten Years After the Failure of Lehman Brothers

Deniz Anginer | Ata Can Bertay | Robert J. Cull | Asli Demirgüç-Kunt | Davide Salvatore Mare

Year 2018 marked the 10th anniversary of the global financial crisis (GFC), one of the most severe since the Great Depression. These ten years have been characterized by intense regulation of banking...

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  • Financial Regulation
01 Dec 2017

Financial Education challenges

Nadia Linciano | Paola Soccorso

Several countries around the world have implemented or are in the course of implementing a national strategy for financial education, aimed at raising citizens’ financial competencies. As pointed out...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
17 Jul 2017

Regulators’ commitment to bail-in – is it credible? The case of MPS, V&V and Banco Popular

Lukas Köhler

With the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) being bailed out by the Italian taxpayer, push comes to shove: Are post-crisis reforms working? First and foremost, this concerns the innovative...

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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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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
27 Mar 2017

Understanding the Role of Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions: A Research Agenda

Guido Ferrarini

After the 2008 financial crisis, a substantial part of the blame for the numerous bank failures that occurred as a result of the crisis has been put on corporate governance. Consequently, regulation...

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  • Financial Regulation
17 Aug 2016

Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision

Giacomo Calzolari | Jean-Edouard Colliard | Gyöngyi Lóránth

The number and importance of large multinational banks (MNBs) have both increased significantly over the past two decades, as well as the size and complexity of their networks of foreign affiliates...

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  • Financial Regulation
15 Jun 2016

Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation

Pierre Boyer | Hubert Kempf

It is common to consider that international financial integration weakens the efficiency of banking regulation as national regulatory authorities are involved in a “race to the bottom”, which leads...

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