The ongoing review performed by European institutions with closer and closer cooperation with Member States since the beginning of the crisis has revealed that nowadays, with globalisation and the greater presence of trans-border banks, such a situation can jeopardise not only the process of economic integration and the completion of the single market for financial services but also, according to the directive, “continuation of the critical functions of institutions and the preservation of financial stability.” It can also threaten confidence in the European financial markets and financial players, which in turn could bring unintended consequences for economic growth. From political and economic points of view, such a situation could no longer be accepted. Therefore, politicians and economists, having been accused of doing nothing by European taxpayers bearing the huge costs of numerous rescue packages granted to failing banks, had to find a solution.
The financial crisis has resulted in EU Member States having to pay massive amounts of money to rescue their banks. To protect taxpayers’ money in the future, the EU institutions have made some profound amendments to the legal framework, shifting the financial burden stemming from banks’ failures to some stakeholders, mainly on banks’ shareholders and unsecured creditors. This is a part of the banking union, the supervision on banks by one body is supplemented by the Single Resolution Fund. However, the details of such a system are disappointing because they do not guarantee that taxpayers’ money really will be protected in future crises, as envisaged.
Przedmiotem artykułu koncepcyjnego jest ocena ewentualnego wpływu regulacji bankowych opracowywanych w wyniku kryzysu finansowego na ład korporacyjny, a ogólniej rzecz biorąc, na sposób zarządzania bankami. Weryfikacji poddano następującą hipotezę: w zasadzie żadna z wprowadzanych regulacji nie wpływa bezpośrednio na poprawę jakości ładu korporacyjnego w bankach. Nadziei na poprawę tego stanu rzeczy należy upatrywać w analizie i wnioskach z niej płynących dotyczących planów naprawczych przewidzianych przez Dyrektywę o naprawie i uporządkowanej likwidacji banków. Zastosowano metodę analizy wybranych aktów prawnych oraz opracowań Europejskiego Urzędu ds. Nadzoru Bankowego.
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The subject of this conceptual article is to assess a possible impact of bank regulations being worked out in result of the financial crisis on corporate governance or, more generally, on the way banks are managed. The author verified the following hypothesis: in principle, none of the introduced regulations has a direct impact on improvement of the corporate governance quality in banks. The hope to improve this state of affairs should be seen in the analysis and conclusions stemming therefrom concerning the recovery plans envisaged by the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive. There is applied the method of an analysis of the selected legal acts and studies of the European Banking Authority.
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