On Tuesday 15 July, Claudia Buch, Chair of the ECB’s Single Supervision Mechanism (SSM), said that “simplification should not weaken [prudential]standards” for banks.
“Lowering resilience [of the banking sector] would be a dangerous road to go down”, Ms Buch told the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In her view, “there are no indications of credit supply constraints [...] related to bank capital requirements”.
In response to a question from...