Abstract

This paper examines the issues that arise with regard to the purchase by CIUs of qualifying holdings in the capital of banks, by moving along two different guidelines: on the one hand, the perspective of the regulatory framework of collective management, on the other hand, that of prudential supervision of banks. From such analysis, the Author tries to bring the European regulatory system back to unity, in an interpretation as integrated as possible, despite all the frictions that emerge from a legal framework strongly characterised by a sectorial approach.