Bank of England wants savers’ first £1m deposit to be protected October 6, 2014 Deposits of up to £1m should be guaranteed under the government-backed scheme to reassure savers their money is safe, the Bank of England proposed yesterday. Currently, the first £85,000 with any bank or building society is protected under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. It was extended to that level during the financial crisis, as worries over the [...]
Bank of England: Banks must submit ring-fencing plans by year-end October 6, 2014 British banks have been given less than three months to put together an initial plan of how they would protect retail customers from any potential fall out from their riskier activities. The Bank of England has published four papers outlining its plan to improve the financial stability and security of deposit takers, to avoid a [...]
Bank of England backs move for greater powers over mortgage lending as it warns over financial instability posed by housing market October 2, 2014 The Bank of England has warned that the UK housing market represents a continued risk to financial stability, backing government calls for greater powers to cap mortgage lending for homes and buy-to-let properties. The BoE's Financial Policy Committee has come out in support of George Osborne's suggestion, which was initially put forward over the summerand reiterated [...]
Bank of England’s David Miles: Perfect interest rate forecasts are impossible September 30, 2014 Critics of the Bank of England who demand more detail on the future path of interest rates do not realise how hard it is to predict economic movements, policymaker David Miles said last night. The Bank has set out rough guidance, telling markets that interest rates will only rise slowly and will stay below pre-crisis [...]
Bank of England pledges to get tough on insurers’ risk plans September 25, 2014 INSURANCE firms will not get regulatory approval unless they can prove they have rigorously estimated the risks they face across their business, Bank of England boss Mark Carney said yesterday. The new Solvency II rules come into force next year, making insurers lay out more detailed risk and capital plans, across Europe. “This rigour has [...]
Mark Carney: Bank of England will get tough on the insurance industry September 25, 2014 The Bank of England is cracking down on malpractice in the insurance industry, governor Mark Carney said today. In a speech this afternoon, Carney indicated regulators will come down hard on insurance companies that give a distorted view of risk to decrease the amount of capital they are expected to hold. A new regime, known [...]
Bank of England under fire as it hides lender aid September 24, 2014 The bank of England is cutting the data published on support offered to banks when they get in trouble, in the hope that secrecy will give lenders time to recover before investors find out. But economists fear the Bank of England is becoming less transparent just as it is gaining major new powers. Liquidity support had [...]
Run on the Bank of England or is it just Open House weekend? September 21, 2014 Anyone walking past the Bank of England yesterday would’ve been forgiven for thinking there was a Northern Rock-style run on the Bank, as a queue formed right around the historic building and down the street. Luckily, it was just Open House weekend. The Cheesegrater, The Gherkin and The Lloyd’s Building also welcomed visitors for a [...]
MPC split again as two Bank of England policymakers vote to raise interest rates September 17, 2014 Bank of England policymakers voted to hold interest rates at a record low of 0.5 per cent again in September, despite two members of the monetary policy committee arguing to raise rates for the second month in a row. Minutes of the MPC's monthly meeting, published this morning, showed the hawkish Ian McCafferty and Martin [...]
Bank of England fears rate hike could send assets topsy turvy September 11, 2014 INVESTORS must be prepared for an increase in interest rates in the UK and across the world, or risk market chaos when the hike happens, Bank of England policymaker Donald Kohn said yesterday. Kohn fears that investors have surged into risky assets in a search for yield – exactly as very loose monetary policy was [...]