The statutory authority of the European Central Bank and euro-area national central banks over TARGET2-Securities

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511770456.028

27 - The statutory authority of the European Central Bank and euro-area national central banks over TARGET2-Securities

from PART II - Perspectives in financial regulation, SECTION 1: European perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010

Peter O. Mülbert and

Rebekka M. Wiemann

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Michel Tison ,

Hans De Wulf ,

Christoph Van der Elst and

Reinhard Steennot

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Michel Tison: Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Hans De Wulf: Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Christoph Van der Elst: Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Reinhard Steennot: Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium

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Introduction

As an academic as well as a banking and securities regulator, the dedicatee of this volume has made significant contributions to the integration of European financial markets. Accordingly, the topics of his publications reflect the ongoing integration process of European financial markets and of European securities markets, in particular. While, at the outset, his interests focused on securities regulation in Europe, he has recently turned to studying the various initiatives to render clearing and settlement in Europe more efficient. Indeed, while safe and efficient clearing and settlement systems are universally acknowledged as being an essential factor in the creation of an integrated European financial market, numerous obstacles still exist that render cross-border securities transactions costly and less efficient than ultimately possible.

TARGET2-Securities (in financial jargon ‘T2S’) is one of the most advanced steps towards a more efficient and sound clearing and settlement infrastructure for the European securities market. The project undertaken by the Eurosystem, i.e., the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) known as ‘the European Central Bank (ECB) and the national central banks (NCBs) of those Member States whose currency is the euro’, aims at creating a settlement service for securities transactions linked to the existing Europe-wide cash settlement system known as TARGET2. The project is praised as being ‘ground-breaking’ or even as an ‘opportunity to jointly shape the future’, but has also met with severe criticism, sometimes to the point of outright rejection.

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Information: Perspectives in Company Law and Financial Regulation , pp. 497 - 520

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770456.028 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2009

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