The subprime crisis in 2008

Estimated reading time (in minutes) The subprime crisis also reflects an information crisis. This crisis confirms that information on financial risks is, at best scarce, at worst misleading, because of the off-balance sheet and the securitization which allows a...

The banker’s duty to warn

Estimated reading time (in minutes) For a decade, the first civil chamber and the commercial chamber disagreed on the issue of the liability of credit providers for granting credit deemed excessive in relation to the borrower’s repayment capacity. As early as...

Mergers between banks and insurance companies in 2022

Estimated reading time (in minutes) Bancassurance can be defined either from a functional point of view or from an institutional point of view. The first is understood as financial services integrating banking and insurance products The second deals with the way in...

Additional supervision of credit institutions in 2022

Estimated reading time (in minutes) Additional supervision of credit institutions and investment firms. Directive 2002/87/EC aims to strengthen the supervision of financial groups which carry out their activities in several financial sectors, and frequently in...