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...John Vickers, a former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading, has warned that ministers’ plans for a more intrusive takeover regime are “disproportionate” and threaten the British economy....
...Sir John Vickers (Letters, January 10) added that, aside from better forecasting, the governmentmust also “weatherproof” the banks by ensuring sufficient capital is held for the inevitable “rainy day”....
...In it, Roger Bootle of Capital Economics, says “too much of the financial sector is engaged in redistributive activity which robs Peter to pay Paul, with a substantial chunk taken by Peregrine (and Château...
...But, as the UK’s Vickers commission pointed out in recommending the lesser step of “ringfencing” those divisions, “they would have distinct governance arrangements, and should have different cultures”....
...* The Cost of Inequality, Gibson Square, 2011** Quoted in Keynes and Capitalism, Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W....
...Jeffrey Vickers, photographer. Keith Wainwright, hairdresser. Peter Walker, former cricketer. Howard Webb, Premier League football referee....
...Michael Skapinker: London will outlast the City grumblers Not everyone likes One Hyde Park, the new Richard Rogers-designed luxury residential complex in London’s Knightsbridge, writes the FT columnist....
...Roger Altman, chairman of Evercore Partners, a private equity group, and former deputy Treasury secretary, says that in all his years in business he has never seen such a gap between Wall Street and the...
...These could be triggered in the event of, say, Sir John Vickers’ banking commission recommending a formal separation of retail and investment banking operations....
...director-general of the Office of Fair Trading; and Roger Bootle, the former group chief economist at HSBC....
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