One aim of Finantsinspektsioon is to prevent any insolvency of any bank hurting financial stability, and so to protect the funds of the public sector, depositors, investors and other clients.
In 2025, Finantsinspektsioon extended and updated the resolution plans of the systemically important banks operating in Estonia together with the minimum requirements for eligible own funds and liabilities. Finantsinspektsioon worked internationally on this with the resolution authorities and supervisory authorities of other countries, participating in crisis resolution colleges and contributing to the domestic work of the resolution team. Finantsinspektsioon also continued extending and updating the resolution plans of the less important banks operating in Estonia.
The domestic crisis resolution handbook funded by the European Commission and produced by Deloitte was completed and was tested during crisis exercises.
The Emergency Act gives Eesti Pank responsibility for organising the continuity of payment services and cash circulation and Finantsinspektsioon supervises the implementation of regulations passed under the act, and so a crisis function derived from the Emergency Act was set up. Finantsinspektsioon hired a crisis coordinator for this and started to build an internal emergency crisis function, which included defining the areas of responsibility of departments, planning and coordinating the crisis function, and clarifying the internal management of crises and incidents. A remote inspection of the contracts signed to ensure cash circulation and payment services was carried out at the banks providing vital services under the cooperation agreement between Eesti Pank and Finantsinspektsioon.
Cooperation between the Guarantee Fund and Finantsinspektsioon
Finantsinspektsioon supported the Guarantee Fund under the cooperation agreement between the two institutions by collecting the core data on contributions to the sectoral funds of the Guarantee Fund, compiling the volume forecasts for the sectoral funds, collating the decisions of the supervisory board of the Guarantee Fund, and updating the internal rules of the Guarantee Fund. Finantsinspektsioon also helped the Guarantee Fund organise stress tests that tested the readiness of banks to pass data to the Guarantee Fund on deposits that need to be compensated.
The Single Resolution Fund did not take in any funds in 2025
A resolution fund has been set up at the Guarantee Fund to finance crisis resolution, and the banks operating in Estonia make regular payments in to it. The Guarantee Fund transfers those funds to the Single Resolution Fund set up at the European level, which is managed by the Single Resolution Board.
The Single Resolution Fund did not take in any funds in 2025 as the target level of 1% of the volume of deposits guaranteed set in Article 69(1) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council had already been achieved by the date set.
