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The Single Resolution Board today publishes a paper outlining its expectations for how banks engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can ensure resolvability. Such transactions, in addition to prudential and competition law implications, are highly...

The Single Resolution Board has today published its 2021-2023 Multi-Annual Programme, including its Work Programme 2021. The SRB sets out a roadmap with a clear focus on achieving resolvability and a robust bank resolution of the banks under its remit...

The fifth Annual SRB Conference "Banking resolution: firm foundations for stability" took place on Thursday 8 October 2020. 

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The Single Resolution Board today brings together industry, public authorities and key stakeholders to discuss progress and challenges for bank resolution. The key topics will be the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the industry and resolvability...

The Single Resolution Board takes note of the judgments of the General Court of the European Union annulling the SRB’s decisions on the 2017 ex-ante contributions of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Hypo Vorarlberg Bank and Portigon to the Single Resolution...

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes an unprecedented global shock. The latest economic forecasts point at the deepest recession since World War II and, at this stage, we do not yet know its full and final impact on the economy: it remains a very large...

When talking about the predictability of the resolution framework, one has to state clearly, that we have a viable system in place, providing clear rules on using resolution tools and allocating losses in case of a bank failure. For example, a harmonised...

The Single Resolution Board has today published a new set of documents to give operational guidance to banks on the implementation of the bail-in tool.

The documents include guidance on bail-in playbooks and instructions for bail-in data sets, which are...

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) today publishes operational guidance on operational continuity in resolution (OCIR) and on FMI contingency plans. This follows the publication, following consultation, of the SRB Expectations for Banks document, which...

The Single Resolution Board today announced that the Single Resolution Fund received an increase of €9 billion from 3,066 institutions for the year 2020. This brings the total amount in the SRF to approximately €42 billion.

“The Fund is being steadily...

Bulgaria and Croatia will join the Single Resolution Mechanism, following the decisions by the European Central Bank to establish close cooperation with the Bulgarian National Bank (Българска народна банка) and Croatian National Bank (Hrvatska narodna...

The SRB today published its 2019 Annual Report detailing the progress made in promoting financial stability while protecting the taxpayer through Europe's banking resolution framework.

In 2019, the SRB further strengthened and updated the resolution plans...

The SRB premises are open in line with the Belgian government's guidelines for social distancing and hygiene measures. Staff members are combining work in the office and teleworking on a weekly shift basis. No external visitors or meetings will be held in...

Registration for the 2020 SRB Conference are open. Catch up with the agenda and speakers and register now. 

Today, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) publishes its final ‘Minimum Requirements for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL) Policy under the Banking Package’, along with an overview of the SRB responses to the industry consultation. The consultation ...

New consultation covers minimum data needed for valuation of bank in resolution

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) today launches a public consultation on its ‘standardised Data Det’ to ensure that a minimum level of data is available to support a robust...

A centralized liquidation regime in the EU would address the current gap in the framework for medium-sized banks

This year marks the SRB’s fifth anniversary – an appropriate time to reflect on how the crisis management framework has worked so far and...

Trust among authorities is the main driver to overcome ring-fencing attempts

Resolution strategies for banking groups with subsidiaries in several countries can follow either a single point of entry (SPE) or a multiple point of entry (MPE) approach. For...

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) today publishes its final ‘Expectations for Banks’ document, along with an overview of SRB responses to the industry consultation. The consultation took place between 23 October and 4 December 2019.

The ‘Expectations for...

Letter from SRB Chair Elke König to banks under the SRB's remit, outlining potential operational relief measures related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has decided that no compensation is due to shareholders and creditors affected by the resolution of Banco Popular Español, S.A. (BPE). It concluded that they would not have been better off under normal insolvency...

Following European Commission and Belgian government decisions, SRB staff is teleworking as from Monday, March 16 until further notice. The SRB continues to monitor the situation and remains fully operational. Staff remain contactable via email or phone.

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The Single Resolution Board (SRB) today launches a public consultation on a number of substantial changes to its policy on the Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL). These changes bring the policy in line with the amendments...

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jan Reinder De Carpentier as Vice-Chair and Pedro Machado and Jesús Saurina as Members of the Board and Directors of Resolution Planning and Decisions. They will take up their...

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) and Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) have agreed to cooperate on resolution planning for banks, through an exchange of letters. The letters were signed on 11 October 2019 in Tokyo at the EU-Japan Joint Financial...