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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Alternative Lending and How to Regulate -- Chapter 2: Towards an EU market-based financial system: The emergence of Credit Alternative Investment Funds -- Chapter 3: The need for regulation: Innovation and Market Failure -- Part II: AIF-Lending and Bank Lending...

We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institu- tions (O-SII) buffer, on banks' lending and risk-taking behaviour. The O-SII buffer is a macroprudential policy aiming to increase banks' resilience. However, higher capital requirements...