{"id":6825,"date":"2026-02-15T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/6825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:10:24","slug":"uk-urged-to-relax-basel-rules-to-curb-shadow-lending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/6825\/","title":{"rendered":"UK urged to relax Basel rules to curb shadow lending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Basel III framework needs to be \u201crethought\u201d because it is holding banks back and moving lending to the shadow banking sector, a financial regulation expert has warned.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 College Cambridge, told a House of Lords committee that \u201cthe regulatory scope needs to be adjusted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Want to continue reading The Banker?Benefit from expert analysis, exclusive data and rankings, clear insight into innovation, regulation and strategy, and the context you need to stay ahead of critical developments in global finance.<a data-trackable=\"register-or-subscribe-barrier-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Subscribe?cdt=register-or-subscribe-barrier\" class=\"sc-ivgJuh jLnpto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View your subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s Basel III framework needs to be \u201crethought\u201d because it is holding banks back and moving lending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,3310,3576],"class_list":{"0":"post-6825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basel","8":"tag-basel","9":"tag-regulation","10":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}