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 Banks. The conference focused on core aspects of banking reform …

models' outcomes; and awareness at the current juncture of their important role in risk management and banking supervision …. Despite all initiatives taken by banking regulators and supervisors, a number of questions on banks' risk-weighted assets are …

Banking regulation routinely designates some assets as safe and thus does not require banks to hold any additional … examples of banking regulation treating domestic government bonds as "safe," even when there is clear risk of default on these …). A sovereign default in this environment then results in a banking crisis. Critically, we show that permitting banks to …