by Robert Tripp | Oct 18, 2013 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
ICB Ring Fencing will make the UK’s ‘Big 5’ less competitive in International and Private Banking in particular and possibly all banking Introduction It is about 18 months since HBW wrote about the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) recommendations on Ring...
by Robert Tripp | May 5, 2012 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
Independent Banking Commission Separation In order to satisfy the Banking Commission’s spirit (as opposed to the letter of whatever the commission comes up with) there appear to be four levels of separation required. Legal Entity Separation; Operational Separation;...
by Robert Tripp | May 4, 2012 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
How are Retail and Investment Banking connected and how did this come about (Bank Group Treasury)? Money Markets Let us consider the simplest retail bank imaginable, a small credit union or building society (a savings and loans bank in international banking jargon)....