Nowadays, banks have becomee interested in saving companies from insolvency in order to protect themselves from not getting back the loans released and have involved themselves in restructuring operations. This paper presents the temporary holding of shares by credit institutions in companies...

Offering a critical perspective, this paper presents the new strategy in European Union’s banking supervision as response to the financial market tensions, describing the results of this redefinition process on different areas: the revision of supervision institution and international banking...