Elizabeth McCaul, who was appointed member of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (ECB representative) in December 2019, has accepted to share personal views and feedback on the specificities of banking supervision in Europe. As an American financial executive with unchallenged experience in US banking supervision as well as in banking strategy and risk management, and with still fresh experience in the ECB, she is without doubt both the most legitimate and talented person to help us take a step back on similarities and differences between the SSM and supervision mechanisms in other countries, namely the US.