The Establishment of the (European) Banking Union

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the establishment of the (European) Banking Union. After briefly discussing, in the first section, its creation in response to the ongoing fiscal crisis in the euro area and the new institutional and regulatory framework set up in this respect, the subsequent three sections briefly present its three main pillars: the Single Supervisory Mechanism, which relates to the authorisation and prudential supervision of credit institutions, the Single Resolution Mechanism and the Single Resolution Fund, which relate to the resolution of credit institutions, and the (single) European Deposit Insurance Scheme, which constitutes the (still pending) third main pillar on deposit guarantee. Each section makes due reference to the legislative, delegated and implementing acts of European Union (EU) institutions which constitute the single rulebook governing substantive aspects on all the above, the relationship between the three main pillars and the single rulebook, as well as the impact of public international banking law on the shaping of EU banking law.