Europe – October 27, 2026 -- The European Banking Authority (EBA) has opened a call for papers for its 13th Annual Research Workshop, "Boundaries of Banking Regulation", with a submission deadline of Friday 5 July 2024.
EBA targets policy-oriented, preferably empirical, research
The 2024 EBA Policy Research Workshop will examine policies that can ensure innovation and sustainability amid competition and risk arbitrage, while preserving financial stability. The EBA says the boundaries of banking regulation raise questions about whether the present regulatory regime is adequate.
Researchers from supervisory authorities and central banks are especially encouraged to submit papers for presentation.
Five topics focus on non-bank finance and digital technology
The EBA lists five priority areas for submissions:
- The growing role of non-bank financial intermediaries and its effect on loan origination standards, access to finance for riskier borrowers, and the stability of credit supply over the business cycle.
- Maturity transformation intermediated by asset management firms, including private equity and hedge funds, non-bank finance firms, and the use of security markets.
- Links between non-supervised and supervised financial entities, and the financial stability implications if non-bank financial firms fail.
- The importance of regulatory supervision for non-bank systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
- The development of digital technologies, and the regulatory challenges and responses they prompt.
Draft papers and queries go to the EBA research conferences mailbox. The call for papers is available as a 157 KB PDF.