Erkki Liikanen: Banking after the regulatory reforms – business as usual? Speech by Mr Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland and Chairman of the Highlevel Expert Group on the structure of the EU banking sector, at the Bank of Finland SUERF Conference, Helsinki, 13 June 2013.
*  *  *  Slides (PPT) Slides (PDF) On the size and structure of the banking sector [Page 1: On the size and structure of the banking sector] Research findings Before the financial crisis, the consensus view from the finance and growth research was that financial development not only follows economic growth but contributes to it.1 However, after the financial crisis, the other side of the financial sector growth has received increasing attention.