British banks are best in breed

With Brexit now upon us, as warnings abound of the damage it will inflict on the UK economy and the country’s financial sector, Euromoney follows its instincts and puts two British banks on our short list to be recognized as the world’s best.

Euromoney is not a cheerleader for the UK. It just reports on global finance. And the evidence is compelling that Lloyds and HSBC are now industry-leading examples of the two very different business models that have emerged among the world’s top banks since the financial crisis.

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Lloyds has specialized within one country. In 2019, regulators will require UK banks to place their domestic retail and business banking operations inside distinct legal entities with their own capital and liquidity buffers that cannot be drawn down to cover losses incurred in supposedly riskier international investment banking.

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