How prepared are European banks to comply with MREL?
The estimated MREL deficit for European banks based on three subordination scenarios would be 195 billion euros under the recommendation of the EBA, 301 billion euros according to the compromise text of the Council and 526 billion under a full subordination scenario. Therefore, the subordination requirement will be crucial …
UK’s MREL proposal: alignment with TLAC in one ratio
On 11 December 2015, the Bank of England published its approach on setting the MREL for all UK banks, building societies and certain investment firms. The consultation is open for comments until 11 March 2016. This analysis will provide a summary of the proposal, with a focus on an important feature of the document: the fi…
Latin America has ample experience in dealing with banking and financial crises. As a result of this the region has developed bank resolution regimes whose main goal is to deal with failures in an orderly way. The aim of this note is to analyse and describe the resolution regimes in Latin America and to compare their resol…
Financial Regulation Outlook. Special Edition: January 2016
This month we focus on: China’s G20 presidency, from Basel III to Basel IV, sovereign risk regulation, challenges in resolution, shadow banking , micro- and macro-prudential supervision, ethics, culture & governance, digital regulation, regulatory impact analysis and european regulatory priorities for 2016.