SSM’s Angeloni: Integration will help beat US banks

Euromoney talks to ECB Single Supervisory Mechanism board member Ignazio Angeloni about the challenges the SSM faces, and how eurozone integration, and in some cases bank mergers, could help improve European banks’ competitiveness.

Since its creation in 2014 as a unit of the European Central Bank, it has been the remit of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) to put the eurozone’s banking sector on a healthier footing. Today it oversees the bloc’s 120-odd biggest banks, including eight banks of global systemic importance, slightly more than the US Federal Reserve.

It has not been a smooth journey. The aftermath of the 2011 sovereign debt crisis brought a new banking and non-performing loan crisis to Italy in 2016.

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