Breakingviews | Regulating banks

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23 Oct 2009 09:53

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BoE deputy Paul Tucker is keener on micro regulation of banks as a way to stop a future crisis than his boss, Mervyn King, who wants to break banks up. Tucker’s ideas have merit. But the fine-tuning required to make them work may be more than regulators can actually deliver.

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