Following the demise of Lehman Brothers, the debate on regulatory reform has been misled into concluding that large financial institutions must be broken up and their risk-taking activities limited by law, as called for by the ‘Volcker rule'. This report of a joint CEPS-Assonime Task Force...

The establishment of the banking union was a crucial step for European integration and for the Economic and Monetary Union. Together with stronger capital and liquidity requirements under the European single rulebook, the introduction of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Single Resolution...

Description of the evolution of financial market infrastructures in the last 30 years, focussed on changes in governance (from public or mutual entities to for-profit organisations, often listed), location (from country-based to international), business (from revenues linked to listing and...