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Independent Commission on Banking Articles

The test for Vickers is the real economy

The exam question is simple: how do we deal with the problem of banks deemed too big to fail and then taking risks underwritten by an effective taxpayer guarantee? This is the problem the Banking Commission sought to resolve in its report issued last week. Bankers are...

The future of banking

Labour should welcome the ICB report and make the case for a British Investment Bank Does the Independent Commission on Banking’s Final Report pull its punches? In tackling so incendiary a topic it’s perhaps difficult not to. The ICB says, rightly, that the...

Splitting the banks

Banks need structural reform as well as tighter regulation and we should be careful to distinguish between the economic impact to the country of reform and the effect on the banks themselves. Those are the main core conclusions of the final report of the Independent...

We need to talk about Basel

It’s a pity that progressives have not mustered the same zeal over changes to global banking regulation as they did for last year’s Copenhagen summit or for voting reform representation during the post-election coalition talks. Given the minimal reaction to the Basel III banking accords, this epoch-defining issue appears in danger of falling off the radar, despite the opportunity it represents to ask some uncomfortable questions of the government.

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