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Living Wills to be a Condition of Authorisation?

This FT article reports on a speech given yesterday in Edinburgh by Andrew Bailey, director of banks and building societies at the FSA.  According to the report, any new entrant to the banking or insurance sectors will be required to produce a credible Living Will as a pre-condition to authorisation.

Concerns have been raised that this will further stifle competition, particularly in the banking sector.  However, the principle of requiring new entrants to consider issues relating to their ultimate resolvability from day one and factor any conclusions into initial business structures, seems an eminently sensible one.

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