Download or read book European Financial Regulation and Supervision and the Onslaught of the Financial Crisis written by Veronica Hagenfeldt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this paper is threefold: first to establish how the regulatory and supervisory architecture has evolved in Europe over the last decade; second to determine how the shortcomings of the present system affected the onslaught of the financial crisis in Europe; and lastly, to evaluate whether the proposed regulatory and supervisory reforms are likely to successfully repair these weaknesses.