Capital inquiry
Treasury Committee
Closed
Inquiry
The financial crisis revealed that banks were holding insufficient capital relative to the risks they were taking. It also demonstrated that, in the absence of means to re-capitalise failing banks from private sources, the taxpayer would be forced to fund bail-outs of banks which were judged too big to fail. …
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Letters
Activity timeline 3 events
27 Jan
2017
2017
27 Jan
2017
2017
19 Dec
2016
2016
Correspondence 3 letters
27 Jan 2017
From committee
Letter to Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, regarding the European Commission prudential reform proposals, dated 27 January 2017
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27 Jan 2017
To committee
Letter from Sam Woods, Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation, Bank of England and Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Regulation Authority, regarding proposals to amend EU prudential requirements, dated 19 January 2017
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19 Dec 2016
To committee
Letter from Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor Financial Stability, Bank of England, dated 7 November 2016
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