Creditor Priority in European Bank Insolvency Law

Financial Stability and the Hierarchy of Claims

Sjur Swensen Ellingsæter

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781509953660
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Jura
• Subtopic: Finanzrecht

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. The 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Table of Cases
• Table of Legislation and Treaties
• 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
• 5. Creditor Priority in the Winding-Up of Banks
• 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)
• 9. From Meta-Regulation to Technocratic Fine-Tuning: The Phases of Creditor Priority in Bank Insolvency Proceedings
• 10. What is the Future of Bank-Specific Creditor Priority Rules?
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright Page