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 …

The green bond market has grown strongly in recent years, especially in the euro area. With regard to the European … Union’s climate targets, it is likely that the demand for green bonds-bonds that specifically support sustainable projects …-will continue to increase in the future. The European Central Bank (ECB) is buying green bonds as well and is planning to reorient …

Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) on the yields of eligible green bonds, a new but rapidly growing segment of the corporate … bond market. We exploit these policy changes using a difference-in-differences strategy, with ineligible corporate green … bonds issued in euro, U.S. dollars and Swedish crowns as comparison groups. We find that both programs significantly improve …