The UK would still be able to ringfence its retail banks and impose extra capital requirements on them under the proposed European Union regulations that seek to harmonise capital rules across the 27- member bloc, Michel Barnier, EU’s internal market commissioner, told the Financial Times.
Mr Barnier said he had split his new capital requirements proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, into two to give jurisdictions such as the UK and Spain more flexibility to impose additional demands on particular parts of their banking sectors to improve financial stability.
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