The next few years will be critical for Europe's banking industry as it faces a number of financial sector reforms that will have a decisive impact on the dominant practices and business models followed across the EU. This timely report presents the results of the first screening exercise...

The Single Resolution Mechanism, which started in January 2016, must ensure that even the largest, most interconnected and complex bank in the euro area can fail. One critical element to make this feasible is enhancing the resolvability of banks. Systemic banking groups are in general highly...

The Single Resolution Mechanism, which started in January 2016, must ensure that even the largest, most interconnected and complex bank in the euro area can fail. One critical element to make this feasible is enhancing the resolvability of banks. Systemic banking groups are in general highly...

In the decades preceding the Great Crisis of 2007-2009, banking systemsunderwent a profound transformation, progressively moving awayfrom a type of banking centred on personal relationships towards onebased on more standardised and impersonal rapport. It was thought that,through this...