Contributor(s): Craig Calhoun, Jim Esposito, Andrea Leadsom MP, Steffen Kampeter | Co-hosted by the Systemic Risk Centre and Goldman Sachs, the Capital Markets Union event on 23rd February 2015 brought together recognised thought leaders and key decisions makers from the public and private sectors to engage in a dialogue on the benefits of creating, as well as the steps which can be taken to deliver, a well-functioning European Capital Markets Union. Jim Esposito, co-head of the Global Financing Group, Goldman Sachs and Craig Calhoun, professor and director, London School of Economics and Political Science, led a conversation on creating an EU Capital Markets Union with the UK economic secretary to the Treasury, Andrea Leadsom MP and parliamentary state secretary, German Federal Ministry of Finance, Steffen Kampeter.