EU Banking and Financial Regulation

Jean-Baptiste Poulle, Partner, Arut Kannan, Partner, Nicolas Spitz, Partner, Sandra Kahn, Counsel, Spitz Poulle Kannan, Paris and Anastasia Sotiropoulou, Agrégée des Facultés de Droit, Professor of Private Law, University of Orléans, France

• Contents:PART I EU SUPERVISORS1 Introduction on EU supervisors 72 European Banking Authority 113 European Securities and Markets Authority 234 European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority 335 European Central Bank 416 European Systemic Risk Board 49PART II BANKING7 Introduction on banking 558 Banking activities and institutions 599 Single Supervisory Mechanism 9210 Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive 11011 Single Resolution Mechanism 13212 Reorganisation and winding-up of credit institutions 14113 Deposit guarantee schemes 15014 Non-performing Loans Directive 159PART III SECURITIES15 Introduction on securities16 Prospectus 17017 Transparency 18318 Short selling 19119 Takeover bids 19820 Shareholders’ Rights Directive II 206PART IV FINANCIAL MARKETS21 Introduction on financial markets 21422 MiFID II 21923 IFR/IFD 24324 Market abuse 25325 Securities Financing Transactions Regulation 26726 The Securitisation Regulation 27527 Credit rating agencies 283PART V DERIVATIVES, COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT AND POST-MARKET28 Introduction on derivatives, collateral management and post-market 29529 EMIR 30230 Recovery and resolution of central counterparties 32331 Settlement Finality Directive 33732 Securities settlement and central securities depositories 34333 Financial collateral arrangements 354PART VI BENCHMARKS34 Introduction on benchmarks 36235 Benchmarks 365PART VII FUNDS36 Introduction on funds 37837 Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities 38138 AIFMD 39139 IFR/IFD 40640 European Venture Capital Funds 41241 ELTIF 41842 Money Market Funds Regulation 42643 Cross-border fund distribution 434PART VIII INSURANCE44 Introduction on insurance 44245 Solvency II 44546 Insurance Distribution Directive 467PART IX PENSIONS47 Introduction on pensions 48048 Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision II Directive 48249 Pan-European Pension Product Regulation 488PART X MARKETING50 Introduction on marketing 49751 Distance marketing of financial services 50052 PRIIPs 508PART XI PAYMENT SERVICES/E-MONEY53 Introduction on payment services/e-money 51754 Payment services 52155 E-money 53056 Payment accounts 53557 Interchange fees 54058 SEPA 54759 Cross-border payments in the Union 553PART XII COMPLIANCE60 Introduction on compliance 55861 Anti-money laundering and terrorist financing 56162 Information accompanying transfer of funds 573PART XIII CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION63 Introduction on consumer credit protection 57964 Consumer credit 58165 Mortgage credit 591PART XIV CROWDFUNDING66 Introduction on crowdfunding 59967 Crowdfunding 601PART XV SUSTAINABLE FINANCE68 Introduction on sustainable finance 61169 SFDR 61570 Taxonomy 62571 Non-Financial Reporting Directive 63472 Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive 639PART XVI DIGITAL FINANCE73 Introduction on digital finance 64674 DLT 64975 MiCA 65376 DORA 661