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Creditor Priority in European Bank Insolvency Law: Financial Stability and the Hierarchy of Claims

Creditor Priority in European Bank Insolvency Law: Financial Stability and the Hierarchy of Claims

Author: Sjur Swensen Ellingsater
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509953653

Published In: February 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509953691

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This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of creditor priority in European bank insolvency law. Following reform in the wake of the global financial crisis, EU law requires that Member States have in place bank-specific insolvency frameworks. Creditor priority-the order in which different creditors bear losses should a bank fail-differs substantially between bank-specific and general insolvency law. The bank-specific creditor priority framework aims to ensure that banks can enter insolvency proceedings without disrupting financial stability. This book provides a systematic and thorough account of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and other EU legislation that governs creditor priority in bank resolution and liquidation proceedings, and their interaction with national law. The framework is analysed from several perspectives, including comparison with creditor priority in English, German and Norwegian general insolvency law. Moreover, the book places the evolution of the framework and its justifications within the broader post-crisis shifts in bank regulation, and critically examines the assumptions that underlie these developments. Finally, the book discusses how this area of law could evolve in the future.

Part I: Introduction

1. Introduction

2. Why and How Society Seeks to Limit Bank Failures

3. The Emergence of Bank-Specific Insolvency Proceedings

4. Creditor Priority in General Insolvency Proceedings

Part II: Creditor Priority in Bank Insolvency Proceedings

5. Creditor Priority in Bank Winding-Up Proceedings

6. Creditor Priority in Bank Resolution

7. The Rationales of Bank-Specific Creditor Priority Rules

8. Administrative Law and Creditor Priority: The Case of MREL (Minimum Requirements for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities) Part III: Conclusions

9. From Self-Regulation to Technocratic Fine Tuning: The Three Phases of Creditor Priority in Bank Insolvency Proceedings

10. What Is the Future of Bank-Specific Creditor Priority Rules?