Promitheas Peridis is a senior associate in the advisory compliance department of a major financial institution (Asset Management) in Luxembourg. He specialises and advises on the whole spectrum of Alternative Investment Funds. He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute (EUI) with a specialisation in Alternative Investment Funds, a LLM in Comparative, European and International Law from the European University Institute (EUI), a LLM in International Banking Law and Finance from the University of Edinburgh and a LLM in German Law with specialisation in Financial Criminal Law from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. He also teaches seminars on investment funds law and capital market law at several universities.

Discusses the comparison between lending risk and regulatory tools in both banks and alternative investment funds

Offers a proposal for a new three-defensive framework applicable to debt funds and alternative lenders

Uses the emergence of Debt Alternative Investment Funds in the EU as a case study

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Alternative Lending and How to Regulate.- Chapter 2: Towards an EU market-based financial system: The emergence of Credit Alternative Investment Funds.- Chapter 3: The need for regulation: Innovation and Market Failure.- Part II: AIF-Lending and Bank Lending Compared.- Chapter 4: Lending and its risks: A comparison between Banks and Alternative Investment Funds.- Chapter 5: Regulatory tools to deal with the banking lending risks.- Chapter 6: Risk Management Tools in AIFs: The case of AIFMD.- Part III: The Policy Conclusions to Draw and Summary of the Book.- Chapter 7: Need for a new regulation or supervision and resolution regimes?.- Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks.