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...

We empirically explore the link between Level 3 fair value estimates and banks' default risk as well as default costs. Both variables are especially important to banks' creditors and the regulatory authorities that rely on the information in financial statements. In a fixed-effects panel model,...

We empirically explore the link between Level 3 fair value estimates and banks' default risk as well as default costs. Both variables are especially important to banks' creditors and the regulatory authorities that rely on the information in financial statements. In a fixed-effects panel model,...

If supranational public and private actors establish rules and standards, then it is of great concern whether those rules and standards have democratic legitimacy. The literature offers different measures to overcome these legitimacy concerns, such as the active participation by relevant...