A retail ring-fence for the UK

- Robert Pringle and Hugh Sandeman
- 24 May 2011

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The UK's Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) disclosed in its interim report in April that it wants two principal changes to the structure and regulation of the country's banking system: a ‘ring-fence' between integrated financial groups and their UK retail operations, and minimum ratio of Tier I capital to risk-weighted assets of 10% for these domestic operations, against the Basel III number of 7%. Avoiding what it calls the radical alternative of recommending that banks be split up, the

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