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UK banks need to focus on lending and paying back taxpayers, and should not be distracted by more regulation, the head of the British Bankers' Association has said.

Angela Knight said regulatory change could undermine the recovery.

Her comments come ahead of the Independent Commission on Banking's final recommendations due next month.

The commission has already recommended ring-fencing banks' retail operations from their investment banking arms.

Last month, Business Secretary Vince Cable indicated that banks could still be forced to separate entirely their High Street businesses from their investment divisions.

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"From now on, the UK's efforts must be focused on the economic recovery," Mrs Knight said.

"This means allowing the banks to finance the recovery first, pay back the taxpayer next, and only then turn to further regulatory change.

So the banks want us to forget about the causes of the crisis so that they can still make loads of profits at the taxpayers expense. We need to have the tax payer protected from the casino segment of banks.

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Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:12 pm
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Perhaps we could also be protected from morons who borrow money they can't afford.

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Perhaps we could also be protected from morons who borrow money they can't afford.

Heavens no! The banks thrive on those people; and they get to penalise the rest of us when things turn sour.

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rustybucket wrote:
Perhaps we could also be protected from morons who borrow money they can't afford.

Don't forget that the banks were idiots and lent hundreds of millions to people like Robert Maxwell and Donald Trump who has lost banks billions and yet they still lend to him.

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I wonder if Angela Knight wears leather and drives a sarcastic Pontiac Trans Am?

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I wonder if Angela Knight wears leather and drives a sarcastic Pontiac Trans Am?

:lol:

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