Can bank boards do the job?

Audience poll questions: 1. Will banking reforms damage economic growth in the UK? 2. Will ring-fencing of banks prevent a future systemic bank crisis?

Deputy Dean and Professor of Finance at London Business School, Stephen Schaefer discusses whether bank boards should have foreseen the crisis.

Director of Corporate Governance at F&C Management, George Dallas talks about the importance of banks and boards from an investor and stakeholder perspective.

Ex-Commissioner of the Independent Commission on Banking (the Vickers Commission), Clare Spottiswoode discusses the level of regulation that bank boards should be subjected to.

Professor of Finance at London Business School, Julian Franks debates the question of ethics and holding banks to the same standards of hospitals.

The audience put their questions to the panel.

Our world-leading finance faculty and top industry experts from the Vickers Commission and the Financial Times debate the recent controversial issues surrounding bank governance.