Global Economy

Thursday 17 November 2011

British banking (1): separating retail from investment

Here's a clip featuring a speech by George Osborne. He announces plans to ringfence the retail operations - that's current accounts, mortgages, loans and savings - from the investment banking part of the business. If the investment "arm" becomes bankrupt, the retail arm will not therefore be affected because it will be ringfenced.

Here it is.

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