Bail-in
Supervision Benchmarks 2026 – model banks analysis
Additional data breakdowns shed light on differences between advanced and emerging economies
Resolution framework fully enacted for 66% of supervisors
Bridge bank and bad bank are most widely available tools followed by statutory and contractual bail-ins
Mervyn King on his career and big ‘mistakes’
The former BoE governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the value of transparency, lessons from the GFC, the need to track broad money and tie short-term funding to haircut collateral, and danger presented by non-banks
Credit Suisse’s AT1 loss hurt regulatory credibility – paper
Declining bail-in spreads show markets doubt regulators will enforce resolution, BIS study argues
Working group minutes: strengthening crisis management
Maintaining a strong team of resolution experts can be difficult for smaller central banks
Stress-test transparency: how much is too much?
The transparency drive to disclose bank stress-test results comes with costs
FSB: big banks could be sidelined from future rescue deals
Exacerbation of too-big-to-fail means G-Sibs could already be too large to take extra assets
Book notes: The bankers’ new clothes, second edition, by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
A disjointed book where ‘I told you so’ new chapters add little to the excellent original analysis
Supervisors grapple with the smaller bank dilemma
How are the guardians of stability moving to address risks linked to smaller banks in the aftermath of SVB’s collapse?
UK plans to tap deposit insurance to support resolution
New mechanism would use deposit insurance to fund failed banks, bridge banks and regulators
Carstens: Regulatory performance during banking crises was ‘mixed’
BIS general manager emphasises role of supervision in preventing bank failure
ECB supports European Commission’s banking plan
Central bank calls for eurozone-wide guarantee scheme and more funds for resolution
How Finma milked Credit Suisse’s CoCos to close UBS deal
An unusual clause in Swiss AT1 bonds allowed them to be written off, but could others ever follow suit?
ECB questions Credit Suisse bond bail-in
Swiss government, SNB and Finma organise rescue of troubled lender that pays out to equity-holders
Capturing moral hazard: the Scarlet Pimpernel of finance
Moral hazard exists in many contexts, but can be ‘damned elusive’ to capture, writes Jesper Berg
Slovene parliament rejects government’s central bank nominee
MPs criticise candidate over alleged governing party links as banking dispute continues
FSB says gaps remain in resolution regimes
Ten years since resolution framework was published, bank bailouts are still taking place
China rolls out loss-absorbency rules for systemic banks
China to follow FSB standard, telling G-Sibs to build buffers worth 18% of risk-weighted assets
Bank investors still don’t think bail-in will happen, FSB told
Questions over bailing in bank bondholders mean problem of too big to fail persists, experts warn
Lebanon aid depends on reform – IMF
Georgieva sets banking bail-in and further audit of central bank as conditions for emergency aid
Claudia Buch: ‘We need higher transparency’ on resolution
Bundesbank vice-president discusses progress towards ending ‘too big to fail’, evidence of fragmentation and how to fill information gaps