Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is a new member of the European Banking Institute (EBI). EBI is a no profit association based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), resulting from the joint venture of highly regarded European academic institutions, with the aim to become a point of reference for banking regulation research in Europe and an instrument to facilitate the interactions between academia, supervisors, regulators and industry. The EBI’s Academic Board approved UC3M’s candidacy in July 2020, and UC3M’s Managing Council gave its formal approval in September 2020. UC3M membership of EBI has a strategic importance to promote top-quality research on matters of climate change and its impact on financial regulation.