International Banking Institute

Ensure that its research environment delivers high quality outputs to academia and the financial sectors. We strive for research excellence.

Promote and encourage a lively and successful doctoral community. While the number of staff focusing on banking research at Leeds is already large by UK standards, the outputs of IBI will be leveraged via close working partnerships with its doctoral students.

To address key issues facing the global banking industry. Many members of IBI are linked into banking regulators across Europe and a small number of industry players. Close links with the Chartered Bankers Institute keeps the research agenda of IBI up to date.

Develop and support existing academic staff to achieve their potential and appoint high achievers. IBI has a clear strategy of combining experienced and early career academics, creating a stream of research papers and reports from complementary and overlapping interests and expertise.

Success will be achieved by a series of ‘milestone outputs’ from the individual and collective efforts of the team: discussion papers introducing novel research ideas and findings, journal publications with ABS 4* and 4 ratings, industry-relevant reports, and the progression of graduate students and staff members.