The essentials of EU banking resolution

• Banking resolution as one of the main elements of solvency crisis management in the banking sector
• The main elements of the international and the EU regulatory framework on resolution
• The three aspects of the EU framework: preparatory measures (including recovery and resolution planning) – early intervention – resolution tools and powers
• The functioning of the SRM and the SRF
• The four resolution tools: sale of business, bridge institution, asset separation, bail-in
• The three conditions for resolution: failing or likely to fail – no reasonable prospect for effective alternative private sector measures or supervisory action – public interest criterion
• The alternative forms of permissible State aid under the new framework

Christos Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Other positions include Visiting Professor at the European Institute of the University of Saarland; Research Partner in the program ‘Financial Market Regulation’ at the University of Zürich; and, from late 2017, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has teaching assignments at the European Institute of the University of Zürich and at the European Law Academy in Trier and is a member of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association. His main fields of teaching, writing and research are international, EU and public monetary and financial law, central banking law, financial regulation and institutional economics.

Seraina Grünewald is assistant Professor for Financial Market Law at the Institute of Law of the University of Zurich. Previous positions include research appointments at the Institute for Financial Services of the University of Liechtenstein, the Program on International Financial Systems of the Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and Columbia Law School, as well as intern positions in the Financial Law Division of the European Central Bank and at the IMF. In 2012 she was awarded the Issekutz Prize of the Institute of Law of the University of Zurich for outstanding achievements in economic law and previously the prize for the best bar exam of the term by the Cantonal High Court of Bern.

Kristian Kjeldsen is Head of the Financial Stability unit at the Single Resolution Board. Previously, he spent 20 years at Danmarks Nationalbank, most of the time as Head of Payment Systems and as an adviser in the Financial Stability Department. Before joining the Danish central bank, he worked for three years at the European Investment Bank in the Chief Economist Office. He holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Finance at Copenhagen Business School and has carried out research activities at the European University Institute.