Darlehensveräußerungen durch Banken: ein Beitrag zum Schuldner-, Daten- und Funktionsschutz (Loan Sales by Banks: A Contribution to Debtor Protection, Data Protection and Functional Protection), vol. 59 of the series Abhandlungen zum Deutschen und Europäischen Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht, Berlin 2012; also submitted as a dissertation, University of Zurich, 2011 (reviewed by Bernd Müller-Christmann, in: Fachbuch Journal 2013, p. 36 et seq.).
Editorships
Commentary on the German Investment Firms Act (Wertpapierinstitutsgesetz – WpIG), Verlag C.H. Beck, Grey Series, 1st ed. 2024 (co-edited with Heinrich Nemeczek and Ulrich G. Schroeter).
Beck/Samm/Kokemoor, Commentary on the German Banking Act (KWG) and the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), loose-leaf work, Verlag C.F. Müller, Heidelberg (co-edited with Nikolaus Demmelmair, Axel Kokemoor, Heinrich Nemeczek and Hartmut Reschke).
Commentaries
Commentary on the Federal Debt Management Act, in: Hopt/Seibt (eds.), Schuldverschreibungsrecht, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt, Cologne, 3rd ed. 2026 (commentary on §§ 9-20 BSchuWG, co-authored with Uta Zentes).
Commentary on § 4 of the Electronic Securities Act (co-authored with Heinrich Nemeczek), in: Schulz/Neumann (eds.), eWpG - Commentary, RWS Verlag, Cologne, 1st ed. 2023.
Beck/Samm/Kokemoor, KWG/CRR, loose-leaf work with ongoing supplements, Verlag C.F. Müller, Heidelberg, commentaries on:
Selected definitions in § 1 KWG (219th and 220th updates, May and August 2021).
§ 2a of the German Banking Act (211th update, December 2019).
§ 10a of the German Banking Act (supervisory consolidation) (202nd update, September 2018).
Selected definitions in Art. 4(1) CRR (co-authored with Matthias Gutmann).
Articles 6 to 10 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (208th update, October 2019).
Articles 11 to 24 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (supervisory consolidation) (201st update, July 2018).
Articles 51 to 61 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (Additional Tier 1 capital) (237th and 239th updates, June and August 2024) (co-authored with Martin Böhringer and Lars Ihme).
Articles 62 to 71 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (Tier 2 capital) (239th update, October 2024) (co-authored with Martin Böhringer and Lars Ihme).
Commentary on the German Investment Firms Act (Wertpapierinstitutsgesetz – WpIG), Verlag C.H. Beck, Grey Series, 1st ed. 2024:
Introduction (co-authored with Heinrich Nemeczek and Ulrich G. Schroeter).
§§ 4, 8, 12, 54, 86 WpIG (co-authored with Heinrich Nemeczek).
Book Chapters
Der Verteilungskonflikt zwischen Instrumenten des zusätzlichen und des harten Kernkapitals in Banken (The Distribution Conflict between Additional Tier 1 Instruments and Common Equity Tier 1 Capital in Banks), in: Glos/Hellermann/Lüdicke/Nemeczek/Wieland (eds.), Festschrift in Honour of Thomas Emde on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, C.H. Beck, Munich 2025.
Die elektronischen Wertpapiere des Bundes und der Länder – gesetzliche Grundlagen und Vergleich mit dem eWpG (Electronic Securities Issued by the Federation and the States – Statutory Framework and Comparison with the Electronic Securities Act) (co-authored with Heinrich Nemeczek), in: Segna/Möslein/Omlor/von Buttlar (eds.), Gesetz über elektronische Wertpapiere – eWpG – Kommentar, Handbuch, Vertragsmuster, C.H. Beck, 1st ed., Munich 2024.
Umsetzungsprobleme der Corporate Governance in Banken (Implementation Issues in the Corporate Governance of Banks), in: Hopt/Binder/Böcking (eds.), Handbuch Corporate Governance von Banken und Versicherungen, 2nd ed., Munich 2020, excerpt: cdn-assetservice.ecom-api.beck-shop.de
Journal Articles
Nachzahlbarkeit von AT1-Kupons nach CRR, KWG und Anleihebedingungen – Zur Einordnung des Urteils des OLG Bremen vom 07.05.2025, case no. 1 U 15/24 (Subsequent Payment of AT1 Coupons under the CRR, the KWG and Bond Terms – An Assessment of the Bremen Higher Regional Court's Judgment of 7 May 2025), in: WM – Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Bankrecht, 2026, p. 941.
Automated bail-in: eliminating regulatory restraints, Journal of Banking Regulation, 23 January 2025, dx.doi.org.
NextGenerationVerteidigungsunion - Skizzierung einer kreditfinanzierten Sicherheitspolitik der EU (NextGenerationDefenseUnion - Outline of a Debt-Financed EU Security Policy), in: Zeitschrift Europarecht (EuR), 2024, p. 501 (co-authored with Odilo Hasberg), dx.doi.org.
Ausschüttungsfähige Posten und Instrumente des zusätzlichen Kernkapitals (Distributable Items and Additional Tier 1 Instruments), in: Recht der Finanzinstrumente (RdF), 2024, p. 298 (co-authored with Melanie Armbruster and Martin Böhringer).
Notes and Reviews
Book Review: Chiara Zilioli and Karl-Philipp Wojcik (eds.), Judicial Review in the European Banking Union (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021), European Business Law Review 32, no. 6 (2021): 1135-1138, Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands 2021.
Gesellschaftsrecht contra Bankenaufsichtsrecht in der Insolvenz (Company Law versus Banking Supervisory Law in Insolvency), case note on BGH, judgment of 4 August 2020 – II ZR 174/19, in: Lindenmaier-Möhring-Kommentar (LMK) 2020, 435103, Munich 2020.
Eckpunktepapier der Bundesregierung zu elektronischen Wertpapieren und Crypto Token (Key Issues Paper of the German Federal Government on Electronic Securities and Crypto Tokens), in: Die Aktiengesellschaft (AG) 2019, R93-R95.
Haftung eines Strohmanns für die Weiterleitung betrügerisch erlangter Zahlungen (Liability of a Straw Man for Forwarding Fraudulently Obtained Payments), case note on BGH, judgment of 16 January 2018 – VI ZR 474/16, in: Lindenmaier-Möhring-Kommentar (LMK) 2018, online no. 406707, Munich 2018.
Löschung einer Gesamtsicherungshypothek bei Forderungen aus einer Fremdwährungsanleihe (US-Golddollarbonds) (Cancellation of an Aggregate Security Mortgage in the Case of Claims Arising from a Foreign-Currency Bond), case note on BGH, judgment of 12 December 2008 - V ZR 49/08, in: Lindenmaier-Möhring-Kommentar (LMK) 2009, online no. 292914 (co-authored with Götz Schulze), Munich 2008.
Ursprungslandbesteuerung von grenzüberschreitend tätigen Testamentsvollstreckern – Anmerkungen zum Urteil des EuGH vom 6.12.2007 - C-401/06 (Commission/Federal Republic of Germany) (Country-of-Origin Taxation of Executors Acting Across Borders - Comments on the ECJ Judgment of 6 December 2007), in: Zeitschrift für Steuerrecht (ZSteu) 2009, pp. 204-209 (co-authored with Götz Schulze).
Discussion Papers and Reports
Resolving discrepancies in EU bank capital instruments: distributions, contractual triggers, ranking (co-authored with Melanie Armbruster and Martin Böhringer), Florence School of Banking and Finance, RSC Working Paper 2025/54 / Banking Supervision Policy Research Working Paper 2025/10, December 2025, fbf.eui.eu.
Scientific advisor to the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) for the report “The 2023 banking stress and implications for deposit insurance systems: lessons learnt”, December 2023, iadi.org.
The Theory of Bank Resolution: Does the Bail-in Work? (22 August 2023), European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2023, no. 150, ssrn.com.
Dissecting greenium: Germany's pioneering role in green securities, ECGI Blog, 12 July 2023, ecgi.global.
Swiss Finance Institute, Public Discussion Note on Negative Interest Rates (co-authored with Philippe Bacchetta, Alfred Mettler and Markus Bürgi), Zurich, March 2020, sfi.ch.
Scientific advisor to the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) for a multilingual glossary and list of abbreviations on Banking Union for use in the SSM/SRM Data Space (with Bernd and Ute Heimbüchel), July 2018, europarl.europa.eu.
Case Studies
Assessorklausur Zivilrecht: Das zweischneidige Wohnungsrecht (Civil Law Assessor Examination Case Study: The Double-Edged Right of Residence), in: Juristische Schulung (JuS) 2008, pp. 536-542.
Übungshausarbeit Zivilrecht: Schadensausgleich beim Finanzierungsleasing (Civil Law Practice Paper: Compensation for Loss in Finance Leasing), in: Juristische Ausbildung (JURA) 2008, pp. 57-66 (co-authored with Andreas Heinemann).
Conferences and Presentations (Selection)
3rd Supervisory Law Symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the University of Basel on the Regulation of Investment Firms in the Capital Markets Union, 26 October 2026, Frankfurt am Main (organized with Heinrich Nemeczek and Ulrich G. Schroeter).
Debt Funding of a European Defense Union, presentation at the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, 16-18 June 2026, University College Dublin (co-presented with Odilo Hasberg).
Electronic Sovereign Bonds, lecture at FinTech Days 2026, 25-26 February 2026, Vienna University of Economics and Business, in cooperation with Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Zurich.
Panel on new requirements for risk governance and fit-and-proper assessments, Regulatory Resilience Conference 2026 of the International Bankers Forum, 19 February 2026, Frankfurt am Main.
2nd Supervisory Law Symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the University of Basel on the Regulation of Investment Firms in the Capital Markets Union, 3 November 2025, Frankfurt am Main (organized with Heinrich Nemeczek and Ulrich G. Schroeter).
Supervisory Law Symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the University of Basel on the Regulation of Investment Firms in the Capital Markets Union, 8 October 2024, Frankfurt am Main (organized with Heinrich Nemeczek and Ulrich G. Schroeter).
The Theory of Bank Resolution: Does the Bail-in Work? EBI Working Paper No. 150, presentation at the Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference, 8-9 December 2023.
The Theory of Bank Resolution: Does the Bail-in Work? EBI Working Paper No. 150, presentation at the 6th Conference on Law & Macroeconomics, Tulane Law School, jointly with the Wharton School, Georgetown Law, Queen Mary University and Yale Law School, 2-3 November 2023.
Workshop on “The Future under a Starry Sky: Your Vision of a Strong Europe”, as part of the Deutsche Bundesbank's Euro20+ event, 24 November 2023.
European Green Bonds - Fade to Grey, lecture to students and alumni of the Master of Finance and the EBI Master in EU Banking & Financial Regulation at the Frankfurt School of Finance, 13 January 2023.
Swiss Finance Institute seminar on negative interest rates in Switzerland, together with Martin Schlegel (SNB), Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne), Alfred Mettler (University of Miami) and Markus Bürgi (SFI), 12 May 2020.
International Cooperation in Banking Supervision and Regulation, lecture at the Institute of Banking, Warsaw School of Economics, 13 April 2018.
Seminar on the European Single Resolution Mechanism, funded by the Jean Monnet Module Erasmus+ at the Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine, Sumy, 22 May 2015.
Regular teaching of banking and capital markets law in the Banking course at the University of Zurich, Executive Education Finance.
Regular lectures on current developments in banking supervisory law at the annual Bankjuristentag of the Börsen-Zeitung and Wertpapier-Mitteilungen, in cooperation with Deloitte, Frankfurt am Main.
Lectures at the academic symposium “Banking Supervision” of the University of Applied Sciences of the Savings Banks Finance Group in cooperation with the Rhineland Savings Banks and Giro Association, Bonn (2020, 2015).
Regular courses on banking-specific topics in the Central Bankers Courses of the Study Center Gerzensee of the Swiss National Bank Foundation.
Seminars within the framework of Technical Central Bank Cooperation (including with the central banks of Thailand, Brazil and Ghana and the Abu Dhabi Global Market Financial Services Regulatory Authority, as well as in bilateral and multilateral seminars in Frankfurt).
Reviewing and Advisory Activities
Swiss National Science Foundation.
European Parliament, ECON.
Journal of Banking Regulation.
International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI).
Accreditation reviews of higher education institutions.
