The EU is working to ensure the financial system remains strong and secure and that the single market offers consumers and businesses the financial products they need. Financial institutions and markets play a vital role in the stability and growth of the EU economy. They provide funding to hous...
Amidst the global financial crisis, international institutions, national authorities and international commercial banks collaborated closely to prevent contagion spreading to Central, East and south east Europe. They built a platform, the Vienna Initiative, that helped curb disruptions and resto...
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) is the resolution authority for the significant and cross border banking groups established within participating Member States....
This Handbook aims to assist macroprudential authorities in the European Union (EU) to operationalise instruments set out in the prudential rules for the EU banking sector. While some of the rules – commonly referred to as the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements ...
An integrated and well-functioning Financial Union is essential for the smooth functioning of the euro area and the EU as a whole. This requires completing the Banking Union and making progress on reducing and sharing risks in the banking sector, with measures to make European banks even more re...
This document presents the multi-annual programme of the Single Resolution Board (SRB), including its 2018 work programme, in accordance with Article 30 of the SRB Financial Regulation and Article 50(1)(a) of the SRMR. The multi-annual programme was adopted by the SRB in its plenary session of 2...
The Consolidated Banking Data (CBD) are a key component of the ECB/ESCB statistical toolbox for financial stability analysis. This dataset, which contains all the relevant dimensions of systemic risk stemming from and affecting national banking systems, is compiled from firm-level supervisory re...
This study follows-up on our 2015 study on “Recent Trends in Banking in sub-Saharan Africa - From Financing to Investment”. Against the background of a rapidly evolving context for the SSA banking industry, the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has coordinated this volum...
This ‘Cost of Non-Europe Report’ examines the robustness of the Banking Union framework under various stress scenarios and identifies the cost of the lack of further European action in this field. The study suggests that the potential gains from a deepened Economic and Monetary Union would be su...
