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...

In recent years, the question of how to prevent another crippling re-cession has become a prominent one. The answer provided by the Dodd-Frank Act is stress testing, which examines through economic models how banks would react to a bad turn of economic events, such as negative interest rates....