The Global Financial Crisis saw an unprecedented level of government intervention to save failing financial institutions. Bailouts became synonymous with the Crisis. Despite promises of “no more bailout”, international efforts to implement resolution regimes to resolve systemically important...

Chapter 1: The principle of proportionality as an area of national discretion -- Chapter 2: Options and Discretions under the Capital Requirements Directive IV -- Chapter 3: The application of National Law by the ECB -- Chapter 4: The Corneli Case and the Application of National Law by the...

This paper examines the supervision of Central Clearing Counterparties (CCPs) in Europe, since they function as an important pillar of the Capital Markets Union. Our research indicates that the current national-based supervision of CCPs leads to regulatory arbitrage and exposes the EU to huge...