If a systemically important bank gets into trouble, action at national level is often no longer enough on its own to prevent harm to a financial system that is highly interconnected internationally: then cross-border management is called for. This is one of the key lessons from the global financial crisis. But, if the worst comes to the worst, how can such crisis management be ensured efficiently, smoothly and quickly on a legally sound basis? Following the G20, the European Commission, too, is now calling for a “framework for cross-border crisis management in the banking sector”. What has to be done so that individual bank failures no longer trigger a systemic crisis?
Manfred Weber
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