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Federal Agency for Financial Market Stabilisation - FMSA
Welcome
Welcome to the information and service portal of the Federal Agency for Financial Market
Stabilisation (FMSA). The FMSA was established in October 2008 as an instrument for resolving the
financial market crisis. It has since been administering the Financial Market Stabilisation Fund (Sonderfonds Finanzmarktstabilisierung (SoFFin)), the instruments of which were available
for stabilising and restructuring institutions until 2010. Since the beginning of 2011, the FSMA
has also been managing the Restructuring Fund, the instruments of which will help to prevent or
cope with future crises.
Find out about the tasks we perform as a Federal Agency, about our history and how we are
organised. We invite you to learn more about the Restructuring Fund’s mission and instruments. You
will find information about the “bank levy” and can gain an overview of SoFFin’s former tasks and
instruments.
Tasks and history of the FMSA
Why does the FMSA exist? How and when was it created? What are its tasks? Why do banks have to be rescued?
Structure of the FMSA
What is the FMSA’s structure? Who decides what stabilisation measures are to be taken? Who sits on the FMSA’s decision-making bodies?
Restructuring Fund
What are its objectives and what are its instruments?
