conditions also includes ensuring financial regulation does not lead to unwanted side - effects. the fsb is currently looking into whether financial regulations are hampering private sustainable investments. conclusion ladies and gentlemen, allow me to conclude. there are important challenges ahead, which i believe call for substantial private and public investment. i ’ ve mentioned human capital and climate change, but there are certainly more. i would be curious to hear your views. so i look forward to fruitful and constructive discussions today. i trust the knowledge we share will help improve our understanding of recent investment dynamics in europe. and that it will help shape our response to these challenges we face.

peter praet : it is urgent to agree on an ambitious timetable for completing the banking union contribution of mr peter praet, member of the executive board of the european central bank, for the magazine of the eurofi conference in malta ( 5 - 7 april 2017 ), 4 april 2017. * * * in less than half a decade, the eu moved from decentralized banking supervision and resolution to the single supervisory mechanism and the single resolution mechanism, based on the single rulebook. this is part of an overarching effort to create a sound institutional framework for financial integration in europe. there still are a number of legal, institutional and political problems to overcome before a european bank can operate in the banking union as it operates in its domestic market. several dimensions need to be taken into account in institutional design. first, private risksharing. the financial system is a private risk sharing device, but we have learned the lessons from the financial crisis in terms of budgetary costs, when excessive risk - taking by the private sector was eventually borne by the public sector. not to revert to the old world of implicit government guarantees for risky behaviour of financial institutions entails making banks equally liable across countries for the amount of risk they want to take into their respective balance sheet. the general principle of the new european rules such as the bank recovery and resolution directive is to absorb bank losses by bailing - in shareholders and uninsured creditors. the new rules contain sufficient flexibility to deal with exceptional situations where public money may be required to ensure financial stability. second, public risk sharing. a certain level of public risk sharing is necessary to create confidence in the overall financial system. even wellcapitalised banks can fall victim to runs and contagion. this is why central banks act as lender of last resort and fiscal backstops should be in place to ensure trust in the stability of the financial sector. in the banking union, both supervisory responsibility and the fiscal backstop need to be at european level, to underpin durably confidence in the area - wide financial system. just as necessary is the establishment of a european deposit insurance system ( edis ). the current situation, where supervision is common, but the consequences of potential bank failures are still predominantly national, should not last. in such an incomplete framework, national considerations inevitably continue to affect supervisory decisions. this is not without consequences for the incentives for banks to become more european. concrete examples include a lack of fungibility of liquidity