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Introduction.- 2 Milestones of European Insurance Regulation.- 3 European
Financial Services Legislation.- 4 Insurance Groups and their Supervision.- 5
The Group Support Regime.- 6 Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union.- 7
Reform Considerations for the European Financial Stability Framework.- 8
Conclusion.
The book addresses
the truly interdisciplinary and highly controversial subject of international financial regulation and supervision,
which has been at the center of academic,
political, and public attention since the start
of the current economic and financial
crisis. Drawing on international financial regulatory and supervisory
experience and in line with the European
Monetary Union’s gradual transformation into a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union, it proposes the transformation of
the European financial supervisory framework into a hybrid twin-peaks model to
create the previously missing necessary legal foundation
for the adoption of the so-called Group
Support Regime (GSR). The latter is a
relatively simple and transparent capital management tool for (re)insurance
groups operating in a parent-subsidiary structure proposed by the European
Commission under the new Solvency II insurance supervisory framework, which
despite lengthy consideration was eventually rejected by Member States.