Rym Ayadi is Honorary Professor at CASS Business School, Member of the Centre for Banking Research (CBR) at the City University in London, UK, and President of the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association in Barcelona.

She is a member of several high-level expert groups in the European Commission including the Financial Services Users Group (FSUG), an academic member of the European Banking Authority (EBA) Stakeholders Group (BSG), an external advisor to the European Parliament on both the Economic and Financial Committee and Committee on Foreign Affairs, an advisor to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), and an invited expert in international organisations including OECD and IMF, among others.

Rym's fields of expertise include international financial systems, financial markets and institutions, global financial regulation and governance, and socio-economic development and foresight in economies in transition. Previously, Rym served as Professor of International Business and Finance at the Department of International Business, Director and Board Member of the Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins Institute for Cooperatives, and Founding Director of the International Research Centre on Cooperative Finance (IRCCF) at HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research of the Financial Institutions Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a policy think tank in Brussels.

Delivers a complete novel analysis on business models in banking

Provides market participants, depositors, creditors, regulators and supervisors with a useful tool to better understand the nature of risk attached to each bank business model

Offers a unique framework to assess systemic risk in banking using the business model analysis

1. Introduction.- 2. Changing Role of Banks in the Financial System.- 3. Defining a Business Model in Banks.- 4. Identification of Business Models.- 5. Bank Business Models and Financial Stability Assessment.- 6. Business Models, Ownership, Organisational Structures and Size.- 7. Migration of Business Models.- 8. Performance of Business Models.- 9. Risk of Business Models.- 10. Regulation and Business Models.- 11. Resolution and Business Models.- 12. Conclusions.