Principles of Banking Regulation

Kern Alexander is Professor of Banking and Financial Market Regulation at the University of Zurich and Academic Programme Director in Financial Regulation for the Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Compliance and Trust. He has taught international economics and law, banking and financial regulation and corporate law at the Universities of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, and University of Zurich. He is a financial regulation and governance expert who has authored numerous books and articles and has advised the British Parliament, the European Parliament, UK Treasury and Serious Fraud Office on bank governance, regulatory and legal compliance issues.

'Professor Kern Alexander brings to this subject an exceptional array of talents, including law, economics and policy, on a grand and sweeping international and philosophical scale. He brings to the subject profound scholarship and a strong sense of pragmatic realities. Some have said that this topic has grown so vast and unmanageable over recent years that it is impossible for one person to cover the subject. Professor Kern has done just that with verve and insight: he has conquered the subject.' Philip R. Wood, Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, and Queen Mary University, London

• 1. The business of banking; 2. Economic theories and institutional design; 3. International banking regulation; 4. Capital adequancy and risk management; 5. Corporate governance and legal dimension; 6. Deposit insurance and bank resolution; 7. Structural regulation; 8. Liability for bank misselling; 9. Misconduct and administrative sanctions; 10. Shadow banking; 11. Risk culture and banking regulation / regulating risk culture; 12. Fintech; 13. Environmental and social sustainability challenges; 14. Administrative sanctions and regulatory enforcement; 15. Future challenges for banking regulation.