Staff engage in direct supervision via Joint Supervision Teams (JSTs) and in inspection teams composed of staff from the Central Bank of Ireland, based in Dublin, and ECB staff, based in Frankfurt. We also contribute to analytical work on risk assessments and policy development.
Under the new supervisory architecture, regardless of the jurisdiction, banks operate under the same methodology, processes, standards and quality assurance that are 3/6  BIS central bankers' speeches  applied. Both since the crisis, and since the establishment of the SSM in November 2014, we have conducted 35 inspections of Irish banks supervised by the SSM. These inspections last on average 13 weeks.