Senior management
The current Director General Financial Stability, Regulation and Resolution is Ángel Estrada.
Departments
- Financial Stability and Macroprudential PolicyDirector: Carlos Pérez Montes
- Regulation Director: Daniel Pérez Cid
- Bank Resolution Director: Miguel Alexander Kruse
Functions
- Analysing and monitoring financial stability and systemic risks. Drafting the Financial Stability Report of the Banco de España and conducting periodic stress tests.
- Analysing and formulating macroprudential policy proposals, interacting as necessary with other Spanish, European and international authorities.
- Drafting reports and proposals relating to banking regulation and discipline legislation applicable to banks subject to Banco de España supervision, in coordination with the relevant Directorate General, and processing external enquiries as to the interpretation and application of such rules, except in those matters pertaining to other Directorates General.
- Contributing to defining regulatory policy on technical and economic aspects in the framework of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the European Banking Authority (EBA). To this end, it coordinates with other areas of the Banco de España, in particular the Directorate General Banking Supervision, and submits the relevant reports and proposals to the Bank’s governing bodies.
- Carrying out all the Banco de España’s statutory resolution-related functions in the framework of the Single Resolution Mechanism.
- Carrying out research in the area of financial stability, regulatory policies and bank resolution.
- Undertaking the preparatory, advisory and monitoring work relating to the Banco de España’s participation in the Spanish macroprudential authority (AMCESFI, by its Spanish abbreviation), the European Systemic Risk Board, the ECB, the FSB, the BCBS, the EBA and the Single Resolution Board.