Mathur, Aakriti; Naylor, Matthew; Rajan, Aniruddha - 2023
buffers, a key component of the Basel III reforms, helped to support lending provision by UK banks through Covid‑19. To … guaranteed lending schemes. We find that more constrained banks defended their capital surpluses to a greater extent during the …, banks receiving greater capital relief from the cut to the UK countercyclical capital buffer during the pandemic maintained …