The inauguration ceremony was attended by Danièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), as well as other senior ECB officials, members of the Frankfurt banking community, and AEB executives, led by its president, José María Roldán.
The AEB’s increased presence in Frankfurt demonstrates “the active commitment made by the Spanish banking sector to the construction of the European Banking Union and the trust it has placed in the new European supervisory structure for the eurozone,” stated AEB President José María Roldán.
The AEB office in Frankfurt is located within the European Banking Federation (EBF) facilities in the German city, which currently also host delegations from the associations of Germany, France, Italy, and Ireland.
The AEB office is designed as a space for working and meeting with its members, but it also aims to “strengthen its relationship with the EBF,” according to José María Roldán, who holds the position of Vice-President of the European Banking Federation in addition to his role as President of the AEB.
The AEB and the banking associations of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, and Romania, together with 22 universities from 15 European countries, have established the European Banking Institute (EBI) as a center for academic thought and research on banking regulation and supervision.
This new forum, which represents a significant step in European integration, will allow the AEB and its member banks to exchange and debate ideas from an academic perspective on major current banking issues, as well as to strengthen relationships with other European associations and supervisors.
Currently, the EBI includes universities from Madrid, Amsterdam, Athens, Bologna, Bonn, Dublin, Frankfurt, Ghent, Leiden, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Mainz, Malta, Milan, Nicosia, Nijmegen, Paris, Stockholm, and Tartu. The new institution is open to all European universities with expertise in the financial field. This also includes British universities, as Brexit does not affect the academic sphere.
