The Single Supervisory Mechanism: A Practitioner's Guide

The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) will be considered as a significant category in the Eurozone as of November 2014. Thus, the European banking architecture is fundamentally changed and adapted to the requirements of a European banking union. Contents: - Purpose of the SSM and Basic Functioning - Some Fundamental Questions. - Governance Structure and Decision Making - The Applicable Nouns and Procedural Law - Determining the Significance of Credit Institutions and the Endowment of the ECB - Tasks and Powers Relating to all Credit Institutions - Tasks and Powers Relating to the On-Going Supervision of Significant Credit Institutions - Enforcement and Sanctioning Powers - Close Cooperation - Supervisory Fees - Contesting ECB supervisory decisions in front of the ABoR - Contesting ECB - Non-contractual liability of the ECB for ECB supervisory decisions - SSM Regulation (SWOP) and the so-called Framework Regulation of the European Central Bank (FR) are the legal basis for the institutional and operational architecture of the SSM.