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Banking Reform Under Fire

The effectiveness of both the proposed Vickers and Liikanen ringfenced were questioned yesterday during evidence given by Paul Volcker to the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.

According to this FT article, Mr Volcker described the Vickers ringfence as “difficult to sustain” and full of holes “likely to get bigger over time”.   The article also suggests that the future direction of the legislation designed to enact Vickers may diverge from a wholescale adoption of its proposals.

Elsewhere, the FT also reports that legal advice provided to the EU Council has concluded that plans to create a single eurozone banking supervisor may be illegal unless treaty change is enacted so as to broaden the scope of governance rules at the ECB.  Moreover, non-eurozone countries that wish to opt into the new regime would not legally be entitled to vote, making it less likely that those countries would wish to join and so undermining the effectiveness of the initiative from the outset

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