Overview -- A survey of literature on optimal capital requirements for banks -- Testing the Modigliani-Miller theorem of capital structure irrelevance -- For banks -- Benefits and costs of higher capital requirements for banks -- Total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) for large banks -- A critical...

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...

After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...