Banking

By Kevin Dowd

A new paper by Kevin Dowd, Professor of Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University and Senior Fellow at…

By Kevin Dowd; John Cochrane

This report from the UK think tank Adam Smith Institute looks at how to make Britain's banks more competitive, innovative,…

By George Selgin

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Scotland had a stable financial system. Its stability arose from the pressure…

By Algirdas Brochard

The ECB seeks to increase trading in non-performing loans by reducing the pricing gap between prospective investors and banks. For…

By Diego Zuluaga

Recent years have seen a reduced supply of capital to domestic businesses by banks due to increased capital requirements and…

By Professor Michael McMahon

The Bank of England raised its interest rates for the first time in over 10 years on Thursday 2 November.…

By Kathryn Petrie

This report assesses how the current account market is performing for vulnerable consumers. Policy measures have typically focussed on the…

By Algirdas Brochard

The ongoing Basel IV discussions seek to impose additional capital requirement on banks, a move that would disproportionately affect those…

By Kevin Dowd

On November 30th 2016, the Bank of England released the results of its third publicly disclosed set of stress tests…

By Tom Keatinge; Anne-Marie Barry

A new RUSI report reveals that while financial institutions are unanimously willing to contribute to the disruption of human trafficking,…