Financial stability in the European Union and the prudential supervision of credit institutions

Authors

  • Andreu Olesti Rayo

Keywords:

Economic and Monetary Union, European Central Bank, Single Supervisory Mechanism, Financial Stability, Prudential supervision of credit institutions

Abstract

The economic and financial crisis has motivated the establishing of instruments of financial assistance to rescue countries with serious fiscal deficit problems which were not able to solve by themselves. In some Member States those problems have been motivated by the lack of liquidity of certain banks which assumed risks beyond their possibilities. These instruments are insufficient to ensure the financial stability of the Eurozone. European Union institutions have organized a system of financial supervision and have adopted a Single Supervisory Mechanism to monitor the financial stability of credit institutions which suppose the first step towards a future banking union. In this context the European Central Bank assumes functions of banking supervision that may be in conflict with those functions derived from the direction of monetary policy in the euro area.

Issue

Section

STUDIES