Technological innovation has greatly improved the safety and efficiency of securities post-trading over the last few decades and it holds the potential to resolve open issues, as well as to address new market and regulatory needs. This prompted the Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Se...
The Supervisory Manual describes the organisational set-up of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and defines the methodologies, processes and procedures for banking supervision in the euro area. It also explains how the SSM cooperates with other authorities in the wider institutional framewo...
This paper summarises the economic analyses of the potential impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom, European Union (EU) and euro area performed by members of and contributors to the Brexit Task Force, a group reporting to the International Relations Committee of the European System of Central B...
The Eurosystem’s Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo) has set the goal of harmonising the processing of corporate actions (CA), based on the ISO 20022 standard. The harmonisation needs were identified by the AMI-SeCo in December 2017 and served as the...
Liquidity in resolution is one of the unresolved elements of the Single Resolution Mechanism. Currently, with the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) and the Eurosystem, there are two potential sources of liquidity in resolution, which both have clear limitations in use and amounts. Straightforward sol...
To review the strengths, weaknesses and robustness of the Euro system after 20 years is an enormous project. This paper picks out three of the less usually discussed themes, at least in this context. It focuses on the policy lessons and where design improvements are needed. It makes three points...