BIS hits back over banking standards

GERMANY - Andrew Crockett, head of the Bank for International Settlements, has answered criticism of his plans for new global banking standards from Gerhard Schroder, German chancellor, by warning politicians not to interfere.

This is a transcript of the story as published in the London Financial Times Friday edition. The story was given to the FT by Central Banking Publications, publisher of The Financial Regulator as well as CentralBankNet.com.

In a wide-ranging interview in a forthcoming

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