Paul Tucker, deputy governor Bank of England: Tucker’s tough message

Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker understands bankers’ fear of excessive regulation, but he’s not easing up. He insists banks should improve the quality of their capital and sees no role for subordinated debt. He wants strong banks to blow the whistle on the weak and to know that, in future, the shareholders of survivors will pick up the tab for bailing out the system. Peter Lee reports.

 

AS REGULATORS FINE-TUNE the newly increased capital requirements and leverage ratio limits they will shortly be imposing on the financial services industry, bankers fret that regulators will go too far, pile up new requirements higgledy-piggledy and so limit banks’ capacity to lend into the hoped-for economic revival.

There are study groups at the Financial Stability Board, the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision and the IMF working on every aspect of the new regulatory framework – with one glaring exception.

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