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The Single Resolution Mechanism in Action. An Analysis of the Decision-making Practice of the Single Resolution Board

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  • Maciej Podgórski
Maciej Podgórski
University of Warsaw

Published 2018-12-31

Keywords

  • European Union,
  • Banking Union,
  • SRM,
  • SRB,
  • ECB,
  • bank failure,
  • resolution
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The Single Resolution Mechanism in Action. An Analysis of the Decision-making Practice of the Single Resolution Board. (2018). Polish Yearbook of International Law, 38, 229-252. https://doi.org/10.24425/pyil.2019.129614

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the supranational bank resolution regime established under the Single Resolution Mechanism framework. Both the substantive rules governing the resolution process and its procedural requirements are explained. The main focus of the article is the decision-making practice of the Single Resolution Board (SRB), an EU agency responsible for the execution of the resolution framework, which has already intervened in a number of cases in which banks were considered “failing or likely to fail” by the European Central Bank. The article analyses the existing decisions on resolution action in order to establish how the substantive rules on resolution are interpreted by the SRB in its decision-making practice.

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