Banco de España
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Who they are
Spain's national central bank and, together with the European Central Bank within the Single Supervisory Mechanism, banking system supervisor.
What they do
Checks that credit institutions remain financially sound and comply with their specific rules, and supervises other financial institutions and markets assigned to it. It authorises and supervises payment institutions, supervises issuers of asset-referenced and e-money tokens under the crypto-asset regime, and publishes the sanctions it imposes.
Key laws & regulations issued
- Regulation Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (DORA) 2022
- Guideline Directrices sobre externalización (EBA/GL/2019/02), adoptadas por el Banco de España (Guidelines on outsourcing, adopted by the Banco de España) 2019
- Act Ley 11/2015, de 18 de junio, de recuperación y resolución de entidades de crédito y empresas de servicios de inversión (Law 11/2015 of 18 June on the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms) 2015
- Act Ley 10/2014, de 26 de junio, de ordenación, supervisión y solvencia de entidades de crédito (Law 10/2014 on the regulation, supervision and solvency of credit institutions) 2014
- Act Ley 21/2011, de 26 de julio, de dinero electrónico (Law 21/2011 of 26 July on electronic money) 2011
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Others in Spain supervising overlapping sectors.