José-Luis Peydró is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School. His research on systemic risk, macroprudential policy and the causes and impact of financial crises has made a significant contribution to the development of a new regulatory paradigm for the financial sector following the 2008 financial crisis. Professor Peydró’s research interests span a wide range of factors affecting the stability of the financial system including credit markets, capital and liquidity, financial contagion, FinTech and innovation in banking and financial services, and the globalisation of finance. Alongside his role at Imperial, he is a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Research Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, a Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional Research Associate, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.