The UK’s Basel III framework needs to be “rethought” because it is holding banks back and moving lending to the shadow banking sector, a financial regulation expert has warned.
Professor Kern Alexander, chair of International Financial Law and Regulation at the University of Zurich and the director of studies in Law and Finance at Queens’ College Cambridge, told a House of Lords committee that “the regulatory scope needs to be adjusted”.
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