Brussels Targets Banking Barriers

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The Commission wants to remove national obstacles to cross-border
banking, improve the use of capital and liquidity, and replace the
stalled EU deposit insurance proposal. The real test will come with
the legislative package expected in early 2027.

BRUSSELS – Europe has spent years promising a genuine Single Market for banking. Yet capital and liquidity still encounter national borders, deposit protection remains politically blocked, and
operating across the EU is often more complicated than operating within
a single Member State.

The European Commission now says it wants to change this. Its plans could affect how cross-border banking groups use their resources, how smaller banks are regulated and how deposits are protected when a bank
fails. But the most politically difficult choices have not yet been made.

A legislative package is expected in early 2027, setting up a new confrontation between governments determined to preserve national safeguards and those calling for capital and liquidity to circulate
more freely across Europe.

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