Revealed: bankers' secret meetings with ministers
Ben Chu
The full scale of big banks' lobbying of the Chancellor, George Osborne, to get him to water down banking reforms can be revealed today. Senior bank executives met or called Treasury ministers nine times in the weeks after Sir John Vickers published his landmark proposals on how to prevent another banking crisis, The Independent can reveal.
Bank bosses are fighting furiously behind the scenes to limit any changes to the way they do business. Fears are growing - articulated by Sir John himself - that the banks are successfully thwarting the Government's plans to overhaul the British banking system and the Treasury is weakening some of the key reforms as a result of intense lobbying.
Mr Osborne also personally met the Barclays boss Bob Diamond, the Royal Bank of Scotland's Stephen Hester and Lloyds' Antonio Horta-Osorio on separate occasions in the days before the Vickers report.
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Revealed: bankers' secret meetings with ministers, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), décembre 2011. Consulté le 11/11/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/revealed-bankers-secret-meetings-with-ministers