Banking: Is a subsidiary safer than a branch?

The entire premise of the regulatory push for subsidiarization is that bank subsidiaries are safer and more stable in a crisis.

One of the strategy’s most enthusiastic advocates is Lord Adair Turner, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority who was responsible for crafting much of the UK regulatory response to the crisis. Speaking at a roundtable in the City of London in early February he argued forcefully for fragmentation of banking and the stability he believes would result.

“There are some forms of capital flow that are valuable and some are not,” he told the gathering.

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