Financial Market Integration and EMU

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kern Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
Banking Union ◽  
Shadow Banking ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Financial Market Integration ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
European Banking

This chapter discusses the evolution of the market structure in European banking and the level of financial integration in the Eurozone and the interaction with financial regulatory developments. The chapter will address how the creation of the Banking Union’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) has affected banking market integration in the Eurozone. The chapter also raises related issues concerning monetary policy and banking supervision and some of the challenges in discharging these responsibilities within the Banking Union. This chapter also analyses the Capital Markets Union (CMU) proposal in respect of its important objective to increase the supply of credit from non-bank financial intermediaries to the economy of the European Union (EU) while also raising important prudential regulatory concerns concerning the risks raised by the shadow banking sector.

From governance to government: Banking union, capital markets union and the new EU

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Epstein ◽  
Martin Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
National Level ◽  
Banking Union ◽  
European Banking Union ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
European Banking ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Supranational Institutions

European banking union and Capital markets union have emerged as two of the key pillars of European integration since the post-2008 financial crisis. Neither were anticipated prior to the financial crisis, nor was the rapidity of their construction. Both imply the same critical shifts in Europe’s institutional political economy. The first relocates national oversight and authority to supranational institutions (a political shift), while the second increases the power and responsibility of market actors by reducing national controls (an economic shift). If banking union aims to break the hold of national governments over banking entities to foster a less fragmented and more efficient European union banking market, capital markets union aims to remove national-level impediments to a single market for capital in which jurisdictional differences are minimized, investor freedoms maximized and business gains access to a greater range of financial resources.

European Banking Union

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Bank Lending ◽  
Banking Union ◽  
Bank Failures ◽  
Bank Supervision ◽  
European Banking Union ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
National Economic ◽  
European Banking ◽  
Communist Countries

If post-communist countries realized marketized bank–state ties through transition and international pressure to privatize their banks with foreign capital, western Eurozone states have more recently come under pressure to follow suit. European Banking Union centralized bank supervision and introduced a single resolution board at the expense of national authority. Thus under banking union, national regulatory and supervisory forbearance was curbed; barriers to banking market entry were no longer the purview of national authorities; disproportionate bank lending to one’s own sovereign would be discouraged; and bank bondholders, creditors and depositors—i.e. market actors—paid the price for bank failures first, before governments and taxpayers. While European Banking Union put the euro on stronger foundations, it also curbed national economic policy discretion and limited tools for adjustment. Taking Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany as examples, this chapter explains why and in what policy areas Eurozone states’ sovereignty clashed with banking union.

The Role of Financial Innovation in EU Market Integration and the Capital Markets Union

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilios Avgouleas
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
The Eu

This chapter offers a critical overview of the issues that the European Union 27 (EU-27) will face in the context of making proper use of financial innovation to further market integration and risk sharing in the internal financial market, both key objectives of the drive to build a Capital Markets Union. Among these is the paradigm shift signalled by a technological revolution in the realm of finance and payments, which combines advanced data analytics and cloud computing (so-called FinTech). The chapter begins with a critical analysis of financial innovation and FinTech. It then traces the EU market integration efforts and explains the restrictive path of recent developments. It considers FinTech's potential to aid EU market integration and debates the merits of regulation dealing with financial innovation in the context of building a capital markets union in EU-27.

Economic and Financial Integration in South Asia

2016 ◽  
pp. 298-315
Author(s):  
Piyadasa Edirisuriya ◽  
Abeyratna Gunasekarage
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Financial Market Integration ◽  
Almost All

Many countries in the South Asia region are global players in many aspects due to the nature of emerging markets as well as being democratic countries irrespective of the fact that many people in the region are troubled by higher level of poverty. Many years of regulation in the South Asian region has hampered economic growth and reduced the level of efficiencies in almost all economic activities. However, implementation of market deregulations since the early 1980s in many sectors has benefited the majority of countries in the region in a number of ways. Among others, one of the most significant benefits is the integration of markets in the financial as well as other economic sectors generating better economic achievements. In this study, we examine the process of economic and financial market integration as well as cost/benefit of such a process. We find significant benefits of economic and financial market integration to the region.

scholarly journals Reluctant Europeans? British and French Commercial Banks and the Common Market in Banking (1977–1992)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 768-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXIS DRACH
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
Common Market ◽  
European Banking ◽  
The Common ◽  
Banks And Banking ◽  
European Financial Integration

More than ten years after the financial crisis, the challenges of European banking and of the eurozone highlight that the existence of a European common market in banking is at best partial. Examining how British and French commercial banks and banking associations responded to the plans for a European common market in banking between 1977 and 1992, this article contributes to explaining this partial character, and highlights that this project was primarily political. This challenges the widely held view that large companies tended to push for more integration. This article shows that until the mid-1980s, the banking sector was not necessarily calling for European financial integration in the form of a common market in banking for at least three reasons: they doubted the usefulness of such a move, they feared an increase in regulation, and they focused more on domestic or global matters than on European ones.

scholarly journals COVID-19, the European Health Union and the CJEU: Lessons from the Case Law on the Banking Union

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-789
Author(s):  
Oliver BARTLETT
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Banking Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
European Banking Union ◽  
European Banking ◽  
European Health ◽  
Health Field

This contribution will draw on the literature that has accumulated on how the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has responded to the European Banking Union, which was established in similar crisis circumstances that now face the European Union (EU) in the age of COVID-19, to illustrate the legal issues on which the CJEU’s input will be particularly important in the shaping of any future European Health Union. This contribution will highlight three legal issues in particular: the interpretation of EU Treaty provisions in the health field; the scope of EU competence; and the powers of EU institutions and agencies. This contribution will argue that the CJEU case law to date on health issues is encouraging with respect to competence and agencies, but more cautious with respect to the Treaty’s health provisions.

scholarly journals Financial and Banking Regulation and Supervision within the EU

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-37
Author(s):  
Constanze Lehleiter
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Banking Regulation ◽  
Capital Requirements ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Shadow Banking ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Banking ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe European Union (EU) has faced not only the international financial crisis, but also the European banking and the sovereign debt crisis. A lack of efficient regulations and supervision were a serious cause of recent developments. As a reaction, the EU finally implemented a framework covering both micro- and macro-prudential policies. Measures such as the new capital requirements, the deposit guarantee schemes, the green paper on shadow banking and, most importantly, the new approach for a macro-prudential supervision are headed towards crisis prevention. However, the challenge is to define regulations enhancing financial stability, which, at the same time, do not prevent institutions from generating reasonable financial risks and do not reduce growth. In that regard, the presented measures still have deficits which have to be faced. Furthermore, coordination between various authorities and the European Commission remains another challenge.

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