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Press Release<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cReflections on competent authorities\u2019 \u201cmeasures\u201d in EU banking law\u201d in Malta on 9th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2017. Prof. Joseph Bannister, Chairman of the MFSA, stated: \u201cI am very happy to work together with EBI and I am looking forward to further joint conventions in the future.\u201d Dr.\u00a0Thomas Gstaedtner, President of the Supervisory Board of EBI, added: \u201cIt was a very successful conference and I feel honoured at the opportunity of having worked alongside the MFSA.\u201d 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n