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The high-profile economist appeared in front on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards on Monday, where he expressed doubts over the viability of a proposed ringfence between investment banking and retail activities. Kay felt that it would be “incredibly difficult to write rules that would make a ringfence...sufficiently robust”, and argued that such a scheme would fail to get to the bottom of the industry’s culture problems. Kay suggested that creating “smaller and more diverse” institutions would help the financial industry to deal with the problem of entities being “too big to fail”.

This week Sergio Ermotti warned of large scale cuts to London personnel at UBS, Antony Jenkins defended Barclays after another round of regulatory probes, and Darth Vader joined Disney...

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