We extend our previous work on bank lending around elections in Russia's electoral autocracy (Fungáčová et al., 2023 …) by considering the most recent data on bank lending and 2024 presidential election. Unlike the elections held between … 2004 and 2019, our findings show no systematic evidence of increased bank lending ahead the 2024 presidential election …

The project to build up a banking union in Europe was launched in summer 2012. Thereafter the progress has been fast … Spring 2014. It should be up and running as of the beginning of 2015. The main rationalisation for the banking union has been … safeguard the smooth operation of the single market. If the cross-border banking is significant, home-country supervision is no …

technically outdated payment instrument, and some central banks have explored the possibility of central bank-issued electronic … money applicable to retail payments. Electronic central bank money would offer the public the possibility to hold central … bank money in a potentially cashless future. In its present form, blockchain technology would probably not be a suitable …