Article: Watchdog opposes splitting up banks.(Business)

SPLITTING High Street banks from their casinostyle trading arms could make the financial system even more unstable, according to Britain's top financial watchdog.

Lord Turner warned that separating consumer lenders from risky investment banking activities is not the 'silver bullet' to the problem of financial monoliths deemed 'too big to fail'. Creating ringfenced 'narrow' banks could 'increase the danger of financial stability rather than diminish it', the Financial Services ...

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