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EU Financial and Monetary Law Working Group

Coordinators: Maria BarataNikita Divissenko 

Contact: [email protected]

The EU Financial and Monetary Law Working Group brings together researchers working on topics related to the regulation of financial services, EU banking and capital regulation, with the aim to advance the debate on the disruptive changes and regulatory challenges brought by the recent wave of technological innovation, both at the service and infrastructure levels. Moreover, the working group is open to discussion of the Eurozone governance matters, including those pertaining to monetary policy and institutional questions. 

The group is conceived as a forum for specific discussions and presentations of papers covering this field (including peer review). Presentations and interventions by external speakers are also foreseen. The WG further seeks to draw on the activities in the fields of innovation, finance and Eurozone governance across the EUI, facilitating synergies in research as well as interdisciplinary approaches.

The group is grateful for the support of Prof. Stefan Grundmann and Prof. Giorgio Monti.

Academic Year 2018-2019


  • 13 December 2018: Paper presentation by Nicolò Fraccaroli and Alessandro Giovannini (ECB): "The evolution of the ECB’s accountability practices during the crisis"
  • 6 December 2018: Reading session on Legal Theory of Finance
  • 19 November 2018: Presentation by Elena Sedano Varo (PhD Law researcher, EUI): "The Banking Sector Reform in EU. Experimental Bridges between the State and the Industry"
  • 10 October 2018: Reading session on FinTech

Academic Year 2017-2018


  • 13 June: Presentation by Diane Fromage (Assistant Professor of International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University) on "Banking Union and democratic accountability mechanisms: Preliminary observations"
  • 11 June: Presentation by Mikaella Yiatrou (3rd year Law researcher, EUI): "Turning Bias into Bliss: Fostering Retail Investment via Behavioural Investor Protection in the CMU"
  • 7 June: May paper presentations by EUI 1st-year researchers: Nikita Divissenko, Evgenia Ralli and Konstantinos Serdaris
  • 2 May 2018: Presentation by Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm (coordinator of Transparency International EU programme) on "Informal governance, supranational regulation: assessing Eurogroup and ECB accountability" and by Tobias Tesche (SPS Department, EUI) on "The ECB’s new interinstitutional relations: Ceremonialism or true Accountability?"
  • 16-17 April 2018: 2nd-year presentations by EUI researchers from the Law Department (Anna-Maria Nowak, Promitheas Peridis, Rebecca Ravalli, Peter Sand-Henriksen, Pablo Marina Rosado, Maria Ana Barata, Leonard Feld, Letizia Gianni and Olga Ceran)
  • 20 March 2018: Presentations by EUI researchers: Christy Petit (3rd-year Law researcher), Elena Sedano (3rd-year Law researcher) and Bernardo Rangoni (Max-Weber Fellow at the EUI)
  • 20 March 2018: 3rd Reading Session on "Capital Markets Union and Supervisory Convergence"
  • 19 February 2018: Lecture by Prof. Christos Gortsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) on "Prudential supervision of insurance companies and financial conglomerates under EU law"
  • 1 February 2018: Lecture by Prof. Christos Gortsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) on "Micro- and macro-prudential regulation of credit institutions under EU law: the technical aspects (capital adequacy ratio, liquidity ratios, leverage ratio, buffers)" 
  • 29 January 2018: Lecture by Prof. Christos Gortsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) on "Legal aspects of the “conventional” and “unconventional” ECB monetary policy" 
  • 13 December 2017: 1st-year researchers presentations: Nikita Divissenko: "How to optimize the regulation of innovative markets; Evgenia Ralli: "Under which legal framework does shadow banking system pose a systemic risk in the EU?; and Konstantinos Serdaris: "Rethinking the balance of interests in capital markets law. How could the new information paradigm in crowdfunding be normatively analyzed?"
  • 12 December 2017: TARN Lecture on "New Accountability of EU financial supervisors", by Dr Despina Chatzimanoli (European Banking Authority)
  • 1 December 2017: 2nd Reading Session on "The Shadow Banking System"
  • 17 November 2017: 1st Reading Session on "European Payment Services Providers"
  • 20 September 2017: Presentation on "Government Funding Privileges", by Ad Van Riet (Tilburg University and European Central Bank) and presentation on "ECB’s liability for announcements to the public", by Napoleon Xanthoulis, (Ph.D. Researcher, King's College London)

Academic Year 2016-2017


  • 6 June 2017: Working Group Members' presentations
  • 3 May 2017: Resolution and its Frontiers - towards an integrated Law and Economics Approach
  • 2 March 2017: Emergence of Financial Stability as a Foundational Objective in EU Law and Policy, by dr Gianni Lo Schiavo (European Central Bank), Discussant: Agnieszka Smoleńska (EUI)
  • 3 February 2017: A transaction cost approach to financial regulation: Two governance dilemmas, by Heikki Marjosola (London School of Economics)
  • January 2017: EU Banking and Monetary Law, Basic Course offered by EU FML WG coordinators
  • 13 December 2016: Reforming EMU financial, fiscal and monetary governance: economists and legal scholars in discussion, with ADEMU WG, roundtable
  • 1 December 2016: Framing the ECB’s role during the crisis: the rise of a ‘gouvernement des banquiers’?, with Florence School of Banking and Finance, Gabriel Glöckler, ECB
  • 24 October 2016: On the limits of EU economic policy coordination, Professor Päivi Leino-Sandberg, with comments by Alessandro Busca
  • 20 October 2016: Is It Made of Timber or Steel? State of Play of the Banking Union, Stefaan de Rynck (European Commission), joint-seminar with RSCAS
  • 12 October 2016: Suitability of new resolution regime for tackling systemic and structural crises in the banking sector - fine-tuning rules in transition, Jens-Hinrich Binder and Christos Gortsos

 

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