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Final Report [“Liikanen Report”]
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Final Report [“Liikanen Report”]

High-Level Expert Group on Reforming the Structure of the EU Banking Sector, chaired by Erkki Liikanen
European Commission, 2012
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The European Union assembled its High-Level Expert Group in February 2012 to study the European banking sector and to offer recommendations for reform. The final report of the Group, which was led by Erkki Liikanen, provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the economic crisis as it morphed from financial panic to deep recession. It also covers the crisis’s impact on European banks and economies. The Group suggests a number of measures policy makers should institute to reduce the probability of bank failures, including the suggestion that banks separate their risky financial trading from their deposit taking. Despite prose that is just as bureaucratic as you might expect, the report reveals an inner thought process sure to intrigue any informed observer and to be even more meaningful to those already parsing national, European and supranational regulatory issues. getAbstract recommends this pan-European report to bankers, policy makers and anyone invested in the future of EU banking.

Take-Aways

  • The European Union’s High-Level Expert Group makes five recommendations for European banking reform:
  • First, institute a “mandatory separation” of banks’ deposit-taking businesses from their trading and market-making activities to protect depositors and taxpayers.
  • A bank could still provide a total array of services, but through distinct operating units.

About the Author

Erkki Liikanen, governor of the Bank of Finland and a former member of the European Commission, served as chairman of the High-Level Expert Group.

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