On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

The present crisis has revealed that, as expected, much of the safety net for handling failures in the banking system is deficient, particularly for cross-border banks, and the present problems had to be handled by a range of ad hoc measures. The principal new measure that needs to be undertaken...

1. Introduction -- 2. The research design -- 3. The making of the single market in financial services -- 4. Governing banking in the EU -- 5. Governing securities markets in the EU -- 6. Governing post-trading in the EU -- 7. An overall cross-sectoral assessment -- 8. The EU response to the...