Author: EBI Europa

The European Banking Institute (EBI) is happy to welcome three new Fellow Academic Members. Further to its Academic Members who represent the Universities that are members of the EBI, the Fellow Academic Members are part of the academic membership and have a seat in the Academic Board. They contribute to the activities of the EBI through their personal areas of research and activities and reinforce the EBI academic community in its endeavours towards cross-EU research and contribution to the policy debate.

 

Professor Jens-Hinrich Binder has been Professor of Private Law, Commercial and Economic Law at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) since 2013. Having graduated from Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 2000, he read for an LL.M. in Banking and Finance Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2000-01), before completing his PhD in law (Dr. iur.) at Freiburg in 2003. From 2011-2013, he held a Chair in Private Law, Company and Banking Law at EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. His research interests are in the areas of banking and financial law, as well as company law and securities law. He has published two monographs on bank resolution and regulatory strategies in company law, respectively, edited several volumes in both German and English on matters of banking and commercial law, and published a large number of articles and contributions on these and related subjects. He serves on the editorial board of ZBB/JBB – Zeitschrift für Bankrechtund Journal Bankbetrieb, Journal of Banking Law and Banking, a German banking law review, and has been appointed to a group of legal experts advising the German Federal Ministry of Finance on matters of financial law. He has lectured at universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, and the People’s Republic of China, as well as government and supra-national agencies.

 

Professor Christos Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Visiting Professor of International and EU Financial Law at the European Institute of the University of Saarland. The main fields of his research interests and teaching include international and EU monetary and financial law, central banking law, financial regulation and institutional economics, fields in which he has also published extensively. Inter alia, he is also Research Partner in the University Research Priority Program (URPP): Financial Market Regulation of the University of Zürich, has teaching assignments at the European Institute of that University and is a member of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the ILA (MoComILA). For the period September – October 2018 he was elected as Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College (Oxford University).

 

Professor Georg Ringe is Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. He is also a Visiting Professor of the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. In Oxford, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. Professor Ringe is also a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. His research focuses on European and global issues of corporate and financial law. He is editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, which is been published by Oxford University Press since 2015.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 17 April 2018.  The EBI is pleased to announce the formation of its Board of Trustees.

Within the Board of Trustees, the EBI endeavours to invite top past and present executives from public and private sector institutions to support the EBI in pursuing its task as a new organisation in the European academic field.

The greater need for a harmonisation of rules and regulations in European banking ultimately goes back to the introduction of the Euro in Europe in 1999. With the Treaty of Maastricht, Europe decided to introduce the common currency in Europe as the ultimate target. This immense step in European integration required, in particular, the Eurozone countries to work much closer together in many different policy fields, not the least in banking regulation and banking supervision. It also required a greater need for harmonisation of these policy fields amongst the Eurozone members. After the last financial crisis in Europe it became apparent to policy makers that a monetary union also requires a banking union in Europe.

Therefore, it is fair to say that the Treaty of Maastricht and its signatories also laid the foundation for a strongly integrated legal framework for regulating and supervising banks. An indepth European research in the area of banking regulation and banking supervision are the core areas of the academic work of the EBI. Every strong banking market requires, in addition to market participants, regulators and supervisors, also a strong academic involvement in the ongoing debate about the future development of banking regulation. The EBI can be one key academic participant in this debate with its European approach in research.

The President of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Thomas Gstädtner, is therefore very honoured that the following signatories of the Treaty of Maastricht have accepted to join the EBI Board of Trustees: Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom, Sir Francis Maude, Former Finance Minister of Portugal, Mr Jorge Braga de Macedo, Former Foreign Minister of Belgium, Mr Mark Eyskens, Former Finance Minister of Spain, Mr. Carlos Solchaga Catalan.

Their active involvement in the negotiations and subsequent signing of the Treaty of Maastricht ultimately led to the introduction of the Euro. All four signatories combine a vast resource of knowledge and experience/judgment in economics, finance and financial policy making and will be a great contribution to the work of the EBI which they will support with their advice.

Besides the aforementioned persons also Dr. Thomas Gstädtner, President of the Supervisory Board of the EBI will be a member of EBI’s Board of Trustees.

Additional information on the European Banking Institute, its members and governing bodies are available on:  www.ebi-europa.eu

 

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, March 26, 2018.  Cleary Gottlieb has been invited to join the European Banking Institute as a Supporting Member.  As part of Cleary Gottlieb’s membership, Frankfurt partner Gabriele Apfelbacher will represent Cleary Gottlieb on the Advisory Board of the European Banking Institute.

About the European Banking Institute www.ebi-europa.eu

Based in Frankfurt am Main, the European Banking Institute is an international center for banking studies designed to promote an in-depth dialogue between scholars, regulators, supervisors, industry representatives and advisors on issues concerning the regulation and supervision of banking and financial institutions and financial markets. The European Banking Institute is a joint venture of 28 European preeminent academic institutions which have decided to share and coordinate their commitments and structure their research activities in the field of banking regulation, banking supervision and banking resolution in Europe.

About Cleary Gottlieb’s Banking and Financial Regulatory Practice

Advising banks, financial services firms, exchanges and other infrastructure providers on regulatory, transactional and enforcement matters has always been a focus of Cleary Gottlieb’s global practice.  Cleary Gottlieb has dedicated teams in the U.S. and the main financial centers in Europe, including in London, Frankfurt and Paris, serving many of the largest and most systemically significant EU, U.S. and international financial institutions, both in the public and private sectors, as well as a number of EU and U.S. governments and regulatory agencies.  The firm offers clients the benefit of a fully integrated global practice encompassing a vast range of financial regulatory matters, including analysis and implementation of EU and U.S. regulatory reforms, M&A and capital markets transactions in the financial sector, as well as regulatory litigation, enforcement and compliance matters.

About Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has been a leader in the legal profession for more than 70 years.  Our 1,200 lawyers, who operate in 16 offices in major global financial centers, work together across practices, industries, and jurisdictions to provide clients with clear, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges.

Contacts:

European Banking Institute

Thomas Gstaedtner, President of the Supervisory Board
[email protected]
Enrico Leone, Chancellor
+44-20-76282020
[email protected]

 

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Dr. Gabriele Apfelbacher, Frankfurt office
T. +49-69-971030
[email protected]

Amélie Champsaur, Paris office
T. +33-1-40746800
[email protected]

Bob Penn, London office
T. +44-20-76142200
[email protected]

Jutta Grönefeld/Pascale Koall
Business Development Coordinators
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EBI Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation

Call for Papers

 

An event jointly organised with Goethe University

in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

23 & 24 February 2018

 

Goethe University, Campus Westend

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Download: EBI Global Annual Conference – Call for Papers

 

 

1. Conference

The EBI organizes the 3r^d EBI Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation together with Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. The objective is to present state-of-the-art research on banking regulation from law, economics, and accounting and discuss it with senior policy makers, supervisors, industry representatives and other banking practitioners.

2. Topics

We solicit papers in the following areas addressing one or more of the questions posed, but other related areas and questions may also be considered:

2.1 Completing the Banking Union

• How much harmonization is needed, how much flexibility to account for national idiosyncrasies is desirable?
• How can a Single Rule Book adequately reflect banks’ diverging business models, sizes etc.? How could a small-banking-box work?
• Would the introduction of a two-tiered banking law system (Basel standards for significant banks, domestic banking laws for non-significant banks) in line with models applied internationally appropriately address the concern about proportional application of banking law?
• Does a true Banking Union require harmonization beyond prudential banking regulation and resolution?
• In which manner would the Capital Markets Union enhance or support the further completion of the Banking Union?

2.2.  Making resolution work

• Is structural reform needed as a precondition for effective resolution?
• Will the resolution framework work in cross-border scenarios?
• Does the resolution framework provide for adequate PSI?
• Will the implementation of the TLAC standard lead to an improvement? Are resolution financing and fiscal backstops adequate?

2.3.    The consequences of Brexit

• Will micro- and macro-prudential decisions be mutually recognized for cross-border banking groups (eg IRBA model validations, setting of macroprudential buffers)?
• How will Brexit affect the day-to-day banking business (choice of English law/courts, participation in interbank payment systems)?
• How will disentanglement processes work?
• Will relocated banks be able to continue to offer same products after a relocation?
• How to address the topic of trading, clearing and settlement of euro-denominated derivatives?
• Is there a threat of regulatory competition?
• What role can the Capital Markets Union play to reduce the impact of Brexit on EU-27 Banks?

2.4.   Non-bank Banking

• What is the interrelation between market based finance and bank based finance with a particular view to regulation?
• Are Capital Markets Union and Banking Union complements?
• How respond to disintermediation?
• How react to digitization (fintechs, regtech etc.)?

3. Programme Committee

Thierry Bonneau (University of Paris II and EBI); Danny Busch (University of Nijmegen and EBI); Guido Ferrarini (University of Genova, ECGI, and EBI); Christos Hadjiemmanuil (University of Pireaus, LSE, and EBI); Rosa Maria Lastra (Queen Mary University and EBI); Peter O. Mülbert (University of Mainz, ECGI and EBI; Tobias H. Tröger (Goethe University, IMFS and EBI); Eddy Wymeersch (Ghent University, ECGI, and EBI); Dirk A. Zetzsche (University of Luxemburg and EBI).

4. Local Organiser

Tobias H. Tröger (Goethe University, IMFS and EBI)

5. Conference Venue and Date

The conference will be held at Goethe University, Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It will take place on Friday and Saturday 23 & 24 February 2018.

6. Call for Papers Deadline and Procedure

Authors can submit papers or extended abstracts to Claudia Collins ([email protected]). The deadline for submissions is 18:00 hrs (CET), Monday, 30 July 2017. The program committee will communicate decisions on acceptance of papers at the end of August 2017. Final papers will be due at 18:00 hrs (CET) on Friday, 22 December 2017.

Accepted papers will be eligible for the EBI Working Paper Series on SSRN and will thus participate in the selection of the EBI Annual Best Paper Award.

7. Costs

We are able to cover travel and accommodation costs for speakers. All papers presented at the conference are eligible for inclusion in the EBI Working Paper Series.

Press Release

The European Banking Institute, a non-profit organisation based in Frankfurt, Germany, is an international centre for banking studies resulting from the joint venture of the most highly regarded European academic institutions which have decided to share and coordinate their commitments and structure their research activities in order to provide the highest quality legal and economic studies in the fields of banking regulation and supervision in Europe.

Together with the Malta Financial Services Authority and under the auspices of the Malta Presidency of the EU, EBI organised the banking conference on the “Reflections on competent authorities’ “measures” in EU banking law” in Malta on 9^th June 2017. Prof. Joseph Bannister, Chairman of the MFSA, stated: “I am very happy to work together with EBI and I am looking forward to further joint conventions in the future.” Dr. Thomas Gstaedtner, President of the Supervisory Board of EBI, added: “It was a very successful conference and I feel honoured at the opportunity of having worked alongside the MFSA.” Dr. Gstaedner further commented that the collaboration with the MFSA and other European financial authorities is important to the success of the EBI. He is enthusiastic about the idea of combining national and European expertise and thereby promoting the Institute’s goal to becoming not only the point of reference for banking regulation research in Europe but also an instrument to facilitate the interactions between academia, supervisors, regulators and industry.

 

Additional information on the European Banking Institute, its members and governing bodies are available on:  www.ebi-europa.eu