Showing posts with label banking union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banking union. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Europe: IMF discussion note on the banking union

The International Monetary Fund has published a staff discussion note concerning the proposed banking union, together with accompanying technical notes: see, respectively, here (pdf) and here (pdf). It is stated, amongst other things, that the European Council's agreement on the single supervisory mechanism in December was an important step but raises challenges that should not be underestimated.