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Regulatory Treatment of Third-Country Branches in the EU: How Will the EC’s Proposed Amendments to CRD VI Affect Banking Groups in Scope?

Branches of third-country banking groups (Third-Country Branches or TCBs) have a very significant footprint in the European Union (EU) with a sizeable amount of assets on their books relative to...

9 December 2021

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Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book – Preparing the European Banking System for a Sudden Upward Shift in Interest Rates

It is widely acknowledged that the current low interest rate environment and intense competition in several countries have resulted in rather subdued revenues of European banks. In particular Net Interest...

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Oops! … We do it again. Attack on the banking union in the German constitutional court and why even ardent Europeans may learn a (limited) lesson from it

Conventional wisdom suggests that the U.S. is the ‘litigation nation’. However, when it comes to disputes concerning euro area integration, Germans also seem to be very gung ho to slug...

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Tobias H. Tröger

Proposals for reforming the SSM with a European Banking Act and a ‘CRR Light’

The Single Supervisory Mechanism ('SSM') puts the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) in charge of supervising the significant banks in the Eurozone. This mechanism however has serious structural deficiencies. It provides...

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Matthias Lehmann

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