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= European Banking Institute (EBI) =

Overview
The European Banking Institute (EBI) is an international center for banking studies resulting from the joint venture of the mostly regarded European academic institutions which have decided to share and coordinate their commitments and structure their research activities in order to provide the highest quality legal and economic studies in the fields of banking regulation and supervision in Europe.

The European Banking Institute’s ambition is to become the point of reference for banking regulation research in Europe and an instrument to facilitate the interactions between academia, supervisors, regulators and industry. The close relationship with both regulators, supervisors and the private sector is expected to guarantee an academic research production which is state of the art.

The European Banking Institute has been located in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in order to benefit from the proximity to the European Central Bank, the biggest banking supervisor in Europe.

The European Banking Institute is registered as a no profit association “eingetragener verein (e.v.)” under German laws. the official language of the institute is the english language and all its activities will be carried out in English.

Project
The European Banking Institute has been created to develop a pan-European research center for banking regulation and supervision which mirrors the pan-European character and the set-up of the SSM (hub and spokes model). EBI focuses on high-quality research into the legal and economic aspects of banking regulation and supervision. The Institute will focus its work in research projects in the field of law, economics and accounting. The Institute shall endeavor to provide academic input to banking regulators, supervisors and the private sector in Europe.

The purpose of the Institute is to conduct high quality research, to distribute knowledge and to promote the dialogue between scholars, regulators, industry representatives and advisors in relation to issues concerning the regulation and supervision of financial institutions and financial markets from a legal, economic and any other related viewpoint. EBI will thus collaborate mainly with European academic institutions and the relevant public and private sector institutions.

At a second stage, the EBI endeavors to develop a policy center with the target to establish a new truly pan-European think tank in the area of banking regulation, supervision and banking resolution and any related areas.

Membership
The Founding Members of the EBI are European top-tier universities who have a research focus on banking regulation and supervision.

Academic Members
As of the 1st January 2018 the Academic Members of the European Banking Institute are the following:
 * Universiteit van Amsterdam
 * Universiteit Antwerpen
 * Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
 * Università di Bologna
 * Academia de Studii Econ. din București
 * Universität Bonn
 * Trinity College Dublin
 * Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
 * Universiteit Gent
 * University of Helsinki
 * Universiteit Leiden
 * Universidade Católica Portuguesa
 * Universidade de Lisboa
 * University of Ljubljana
 * Queen Mary University of London
 * Université du Luxembourg
 * Universidad Autónoma Madrid
 * Complutense de Madrid/CUNEF
 * Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz
 * University of Malta
 * Università Cattolica Milano
 * University of Cyprus
 * Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
 * Université Panthéon - Sorbonne
 * Université Panthéon-Assas
 * Stockholms Universitet
 * University of Tartu

Supporting Members
European and national banking associations, law and accounting firms, banks and other financial institutions are being admitted as Supporting Members.

As of 1st January 2018, the Supporting Members of the European Banking Institute are the following:
 * European Banking Federation (EBF)
 * European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG)
 * Bundesverband deutscher Banken / Association of German Banks (BDB)
 * Ελληνική Ένωση Τραπεζών / Hellenic Bank Association (HBA)
 * Associazione Bancaria Italiana / Italian Banking Association (ABI)
 * Asociaţia Română a Băncilor / Romanian Banking Association (ARB)
 * Asociación Española de Banca / Spanish Banking Association (AEB)
 * Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken / Dutch Banking Association (NVB)
 * Fédération nationale des Caisses d Epargne (FNCE)
 * Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Work Programme
The EBI is currently engaging in scholarly research in the following areas: The Academic Programme also includes:
 * Enhancements of the Single Rule Book and issues concerning convergence of supervisory practice in the EU
 * Proportionality of banking supervision laws, the limitation of risk orientated approaches and interaction between ICAAP/ILAAP and the SREP process
 * The interaction between early intervention measures and resolution planning and the need for pairing the SSM and SRM objectives
 * Bank business models, structural separation of trading and banking activities and profitability objectives
 * Interaction between macro prudential and micro prudential supervision, discretion of EU authorities and issues concerning a European level playing field
 * The foundations of enhanced supervision of significant and systemically important institutions: accounting, auditing, capital adequacy, cross border risk management and resolvability
 * Alignment of bank supervision, recovery and resolution objectives with principles of common insolvency law
 * Legal systems governing banks and their openness to innovation including FinTech
 * Individual rights in the financial regulatory structure including judicial adjudication of matters concerning market supervision in the EU and an impact assessment of the establishment of a specialised EU court; and
 * Corporate governance models and remuneration policies for banks and the implementation of the governance provisions in the CRD IV package
 * Organising two pan-European conference(s) on banking regulation and supervision every year in Frankfurt
 * Organising 3-4 local conferences every year in collaboration with one or more Academic Members
 * Organising regular seminars on current topics of banking regulation and supervision
 * Publishing the EBI Working Paper Series which include a selection of the academic researches published by EBI Academic Members
 * Developing a pan-European policy center