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December 17, 2015
Over recent weeks, the Eurozone has taken the necessary steps to ensure the effective functioning of the Single Resolution Mechanism from January 2016. The ratification of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) and the agreement on a bridge financing mechanism for the SRF are essential elements to complete the banking union.
March 16, 2015
Banking union is a milestone in the European project. It has chiefly helped to stop fragmentation but will not be able to break the sovereign-bank doom loop until it can rely on a robust safety net. Advancing towards a complete banking union should be a priority for EU leaders but this will require advances in the fiscal union front too.
June 23, 2014
The Banking Union requires financial institutions to support the administrative cost of the new institutions and finance the new resolution fund. Current regulatory debate is focused on how to define a methodology to compute these new payments and charge them to banks. For banks this new reality implies new costs, however even if in the short run the profits of the European banking system may be affected, in the long run the benefits of a robust banking union will clearly overcome the financial costs.
