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Without supervisors, rules would have little effect; without rules, supervisors would have no job – or at least no firm basis for doing their job. You can’t have one without the other: regulation and supervision need to be aligned. But are they? Let us take a look at the euro area. In 2014, banking supervision was transferred from national to European level.