A combination of regulatory capture, conflicts of interest and inadequate stress testing leaves the British and European Union banking systems with significant threat of failure, argues banking researcher, Konrad Urban in his new paper for the UKIP Parliamentary Resource Unit, “European Banks: Not Fixed Yet”, which can be downloaded here.
Mark Reckless, UKIP’s Director of Policy Development said, "This is a timely and worrying intervention in the debate about banks, and banking regulation. Interest rates may be set to rise in the US but seven years of near-zero interest rates in the UK and the Eurozone leave banks here in a precarious position. Instead of intermediating capital between savers and the most productive borrowers, European banks have depended on quantitative easing and an 'extend and pretend' regime. The result is that major banks in the UK, but also in Germany at least as much as in southern Europe, may once again fall back on taxpayer bail-outs if a financial crisis of similar scale recurs. European banks are not fixed yet.'
The paper argues forcefully that while banks and financial institutions may retain their profits, the regulatory system ensure that the risks and possible losses are still the responsibility of the government’s, and therefore the taxpayer. There is therefore no imperative for the banks to act with caution.
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