02 Mar 2009
Financial Crisis and the Future of the Financial System
We are going to return to retail banking with much less access to the wholesale markets. Less globalisation, more host country control. Perhaps, much more counter-cyclical control over credit and asset price cycles. Control over leverage applied to all intermediaries who are highly leveraged and big. I expect that we will get a twin-peak approach to financial regulation, with the macro-prudential instruments which relate to leverage and rates of growth and credit expansion being undertaken by the central bank, and the micro-prudential instruments, that’s effectively Basel II, remaining within the FSA.