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SRB in 5 - Tuija Taos as the SRB's newest Board Member talks to us about her first impressions, the resolution planning cycle, gender and diversity and many more issues!
This spring the European Commission initiated changes with respect to the potential resolution of banks. In addition to natural persons, depositor protection is to be extended to schools, hospitals, municipalities and other public institutions. When are...
Dominique Laboureix says Single Resolution Board moving to new phase of work on euro zone banks
The head of the euro-area agency that deals with bank failures has said he is “reasonably comfortable” with the recovery plans Irish banks have drawn up in the...
- The SRB publishes its second assessment of banks’ resolvability across the Banking Union
- Good progress made to date on key priorities and in building up loss-absorbing capacity
The Single Resolution Board has today published the results of its annual...
The rules on bank failure put in place after the financial crisis have ensured resilience and stability in the EU banking sector. However, experience over the last 10 years has shown that improvements are needed, and particularly for dealing with mid...
Liquidity is central to successful crisis management. Banks depend on trust. If customers lack confidence that their funds will be available on demand, a spiraling liquidity crisis may develop. Such a crisis can potentially drive fire sales of assets to...
The banking turmoil in the US and Switzerland earlier this year had plenty of noteworthy aspects. First Republic Bank, which collapsed shortly after Silicon Valley Bank, was the largest bank to fail since the great financial crisis, while Credit Suisse...
The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, established the single market and outlined a roadmap towards full freedom of movement of capital. Since then, the completion of this roadmap has been a multigenerational effort that continues to this day.
After almost...
The European Central Bank and the Single Resolution Board have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the exchange of certain types of confidential statistical information, in order to improve analysis related to bank resolution.
The MoU is an...
The SRB publishes today its MREL dashboard for Q1.2023. The MREL dashboard presents the evolution of MREL targets and shortfalls for resolution (external MREL) and non-resolution entities (internal MREL) as well as the level and composition of resources...
Our fourth podcast episode features SRB Chair Dominique Laboureix, who talks to host Susan Carroll about his first months in the role, lessons learned from the recent banking crises and his tips for medieval architecture gems to visit in Belgium.
Laboureix disputes Swiss claim that G-Sibs are not resolvable, but wants improvements to framework
When banks fail, the outcome is inevitably messy. The post-2008 regulatory framework for resolving banks was designed stop a failure turning into a...
- 2023 marks end of ‘build-up’ phase of SRF
- Emergency fund, paid for by banks, can help resolve a failing bank
- Every bank, big or small, operating across the 21-country Banking Union pays contribution to this key instrument for financial stability
Toda...
The SRB today published its Annual Report for 2022. The report details the work of Europe’s Single Resolution Board and highlights the progress made in making Europe’s banking sector more stable, by ensuring all of the SRB’s banks make themselves...
Europe’s bank resolution authority is pushing policymakers to provide more “firepower” to protect depositors and rethink how lenders are wound down after recent failures underscored the need for swift and decisive action in a crisis.
Silicon Valley...
- New guidance builds on previously issued “Expectations for banks”
- Targets banks’ capacity to measure and report liquidity in resolution
Today. 16 June, the SRB published new guidance on liquidity in resolution data for 115 of Europe’s largest banks[1]...
Dominique Laboureix: We don't want taxpayers to be hit if things go wrong somewhere.
Politicians are afraid that "their" banks will pay for failing banks in other countries if there were a European deposit guarantee scheme.But through the Single...
The SRB has published its Resolution Planning Cycle Booklet for 2023.
Resolution planning is about being prepared to deal with failing banks in a controlled way, in order to protect taxpayers and keep providing critical functions to the economy while...
This note is aimed at reporting to the Eurogroup of 15 May 2023 on:
- resolvability progress of SRB banks;
- the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) and Common Backstop; and
- the SRB's strategic review
This reporting takes place twice a year, in parallel with...
MREL policy
The SRB has decided to maintain its policy on the calibration of MREL (total and subordinated component) with minimal changes this year. “We aim to provide a stable regulatory environment in a phase where some banks are still building up...