Ingrid de Wilde Angelique Thiele In March 2011 a bill was published for consultation to extend the powers of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and the Dutch Minister of Finance to intervene in credit institutions, special purpose reinsurance vehicles and insurers that are experiencing "serious irreversible problems". The bill, referred to as the Intervention Act, is intended to fill the gap between already existing statutory powers with a view to preventing financial institutions from getting into financial difficulties and, at the other end of the scale, existing rules with respect to emergency regimes and bankruptcy of financial institutions.
