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Euromoney’s alternative award for speaking too soon will be a shoo-in this year.
On June 7, after the overnight takeover of Spain’s Banco Popular by Santander, Elke König, chair of the Single Resolution Board (SRB), declared that: “This shows that the tools given to resolution authorities after the crisis are effective to protect taxpayers’ money from bailing out banks.”
Just two weeks and two days later on June 23, König’s SRB threw in the towel on two other European banks under its jurisdiction, Italian lenders Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza, and concluded that the conditions for a resolution action had not been met.
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