This article discusses the impact of digitalisation on the structure of the European banking system. The recent wave of financial innovation, based on the opportunities created by digitalisation in terms of new products or new services, has come mostly from outside the incumbent banking system....

Financial institutions are connected to each other by a series of bilateral transactions. In normal times, institutions' connections may result in efficient risk transfer. But in crises, connections can facilitate contagion - as initial problems lead to chains of defaults and liquidity shortages...