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June 19, 2015
Today it has been published in the BOE the transposition of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) in Spain (Ley 11/2015 de recuperación y resolución de entidades de crédito y empresas de servicios de inversión) approved by the Spanish Parliament last 11 June. It will enter into force on 20 June.
January 8, 2015
In November 2014, the FSB and the European authorities published the main features of their new loss-absorbing ratios, TLAC and MREL respectively. Despite having the same purpose, both ratios have significant divergences, which imply heterogeneous consequences and penalties when a bank breaches them.
December 16, 2014
Achieving an effective resolution regime to resolve banks quickly, avoiding disturbances to the financial system, minimizing the use of public funds –thus protecting taxpayers–, and continuing the critical financial services that they provide is one of the main goals of authorities in the current regulatory reform. Authorities are developing a new resolution framework that set out the responsibilities and powers to enable them to resolve efficiently cross-border banks in trouble. In this sense, the FSB outlines two polar resolution approaches for resolving global banks: the Single Point of Entry (SPE) and Multiple Point of Entry (MPE) resolution strategies. The purpose of this compendium is to describe the main features of the Multiple Point of Entry resolution scheme
December 3, 2014
On 28 November 2014, the EBA released the consultation paper on the criteria for determining the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities for bail-in – the so-called MREL. With the MREL, European authorities will ensure that banks have enough liabilities to absorb losses in case of failure, and, therefore, shareholders and creditors should shoulder much of the recapitalisation burden, instead of tax-payers.
