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ECB glossary

banking union

One of the building blocks for completing Economic and Monetary Union, which consists of an integrated financial framework with a single supervisory mechanism, a single bank resolution mechanism, and a single rulebook, including for harmonised deposit guarantee schemes, which may evolve into a common European deposit insurance scheme. See also Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM), Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM)