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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...
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...
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...
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.
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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 European crisis management framework is a strong, flexible framework that is well-designed to manage bank failure. However, work remains to be done to enhance the framework. I will focus on two key issues: ensuring we have the options needed to manage...
The EU’s resolution authority is investigating how to adjust to the pressure from digital bank runs, which accelerated the failures of U.S. lenders in March.
Dominique Laboureix, the chair of the Single Resolution Board (SRB), which works to prevent...
Dominique Laboureix, chair of the European Union’s Single Resolution Board, said he wanted to send a clear message to investors that the regulator would uphold the legal framework for absorbing losses in the case of another bank failure.
- The Swiss decision has led some Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders to consider legal action, and it sparked uncertainty for bondholders around the world.
- “We wanted to tell it very clearly to the investors, to avoid to be misunderstood: we have no choice but...
BRUSSELS — The EU shouldn’t ignore financial-market jitters over the health of the banking sector, the head of the European authority for managing bank failures said, as he warned a lack of trust could spiral despite the resilience of the sector.
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EU plans to bring more mid-sized banks into the resolution framework and tinker with the conditions for a rainy-day fund for bank failures won’t be a “free lunch,” according to the head of the European authority for handling bank failures.
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Dans un entretien exclusif à L’Agefi, Dominique Laboureix, président du Conseil de résolution unique (SRB) européen depuis fin novembre, juge que la gestion des crises SVB et Credit Suisse ne remet pas en cause le modèle européen
Single Resolution Board chair adamant Brussels will not take investors in bank debt ‘by surprise’
A senior EU policymaker has pledged not to wrongfoot investors by upending bank creditor hierarchies, after a market uproar at Switzerland’s decision to...
“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity”.
These words, from the 1950 Schuman declaration, are still very pertinent today. As Chair of...
The adoption of the Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive in 2014 was an essential landmark in the setup of the Single Rulebook for the EU banking sector. While it helps to foster financial stability and reduce the risk of bank runs across the Union, it is...
Ms König, coalition talks are currently in progress in Berlin. What expectations do you have of the new federal government – for example on the subject of the Banking Union, which is also important for the SRB?
I hope we will keep the completion of the...
One of the main goals of the ongoing review of the Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance framework is to enhance how we address the failure of medium-sized banks. The lack of diversification of their liabilities (mainly equity and deposits) potentially...
In Europe, we have built our resolution framework from scratch in just a few short years. This required prioritising tasks in the initial phases. Up to now, we have mainly focused on the operationalisation of the bail-in tool, as it is the preferred...
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...
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...