The European Banking Institute (EBI) is an international Frankfurt-based centre for banking studies, a joint venture of Europe’s preeminent academic institutions, sharing and coordinating their commitments and structuring their research activities to provide the highest quality of legal, economic and accounting studies in banking regulation, banking supervision and banking resolution in Europe. 

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The EBI contributes to and evaluates the quality of bank regulation, supervision and enforcement in the EU, while advocating for financial stability, market efficiency and the equitable treatment of stakeholders.

EBI Policy Center

The EBI Policy Center promotes discussions between stakeholders on current developments in the European banking and financial system.

EU Banking Database

The EU Banking Cases Collection enhances the transparency of the cases pending before, or decided by, the Union Courts in the area of the EU Banking Union, offering a helpful tool to academics and practitioners.

Courses

EBI Masters and courses are aimed, in the spirit of the Meseberg declaration, to the development of multi-jurisdictional teaching activities of the law of the Banking Union in the Eurozone.

Parntnership with ESAs

EBI has been selected as academic partner by the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), together: ESAs

Groups

Our groups gather academics, regulators, banking industry and practitioners to promote dialogue and research on specific areas of interest.

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 189

“Regulatory Cooperation in AI Sandboxes: Insights from Fintech” was jointly published on 1 April 2025 in the EBI Working Paper Series No. 189. With the expansion of artificial intelligence worldwide, countries have started adopting the sandbox regime commonly used in

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 188

“Choice of Law under MiCAR: Applicable Law and Competent Court for Crypto-Assets, Services and Offerings” was published on 26 March 2025 in the EBI Working Paper Series No. 188. In various instances, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) requires to

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 187

“Cross-Border Regulation of Crypto-Assets under MiCAR Regulating a Global Phenomenon” was jointly published on 25 March 2025 in the EBI Working Paper Series No. 187. The regulation of global phenomena has moved increasingly to the centre of public interest since

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 186

“Measurement of Audit Quality in Academic Studies“ by Edgar Loew (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH) and Daniela Hayn (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) was jointly published on 13 January 2025 in the EBI Working Paper Series No. 186. “The

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 185

“Lending of Last Resort (LLR) to Credit Institutions in the Euro Area under the Emergency Liquidity Assistanvce (ELA) Mechanism: Status Quo an Proposed Amendments” by Christos Gortsos was published on 25 November 2024 in the EBI Working Paper Series No.

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Publication: Working Paper Series No. 184

“The Law of Algorithmic Stablecoins in the EU” by Edoardo D. Martino (University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law; European Banking Institute) & Yannick Roos (University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law) was jointly published on 6 November 2024 in the EBI

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