The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards has published its long-awaited report. The FT provides a guide to the highlights:
1) More competition, less political interference
UKFI, the arm’s length Treasury body set up to manage the government’s bank stakes, is ineffective – and the government’s interference in the running of RBS and other part-nationalised banks is labelled “clearly not acceptable.”
Suggests competition probe into the retail and SME banking sector.