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Some Challenges Facing European Central Banks as Supervising Authority

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  • Vletter-van Dort Hélène M.

    (Prof. Dr. Chair of Banking and Securities law, Erasmus School of Law, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

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This article analyses the changes that have been made to the role of the central banks as prudential supervisors in four European member states since the crisis of 2008–2010. In Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Germany the duty of financial supervision was either attributed to various entities or to one single institution. Since the crisis we see a much higher involvement of central banks in financial supervision, which means that central banking and supervisory powers are moving closer. The increased involvement of central banks has, in the four countries that are discussed in this article, been embedded in a Twin Peaks model, thereby combining macro- and micro prudential supervision. The Netherlands had already moved to a Twin Peaks model in 2002, so well before the crisis. However, the fact that the Dutch central bank was prudential supervisor did not prevent the failure of a couple of large financial institutions in the Netherlands. The question is whether any model is fool proof.

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  • Vletter-van Dort Hélène M., 2012. "Some Challenges Facing European Central Banks as Supervising Authority," European Company and Financial Law Review, De Gruyter, vol. 9(2), pages 131-155, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:eucflr:v:9:y:2012:i:2:p:131-155:n:3
    DOI: 10.1515/ecfr-2012-0131
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