Workshop on “Lending by multinational banks and implications for financial stability and integration”Rome, 10 June 2013

The Workshop brought together experts from central banks, international institutions and universities to provide an overview of the most recent empirical work on multinational banks and on the financial linkages among the countries wherein they operate, as well as to discuss current developments in their supervision and regulation. The Workshop featured two contributed sessions and a panel session. The studies presented during first session focused on foreign banks' lending patterns during the global financial crisis, their possible determinants as well as their effects on the real economy and on trade. The second session examined instead the role played by multinational banks during the sovereign debt crisis. The speakers participating to the panel session discussed the prospects of multinational banks from different viewpoints, by first presenting an overview of the activity of these intermediaries in Emerging Europe and then by discussing the current and  future possible developments in supervision and regulation..