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Paul Tucker Speech on Resolution

On 20 May 2013, Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of Financial Stability at the Bank of England gave a speech entitled “Resolution and future of finance” at the INSOL International World Congress in the Hague.

Within the wider context of discussing solutions to the problem of “too big to fail”, the speech gives a useful summary of the ways in which both “single point of entry” and “multiple point of entry” resolution would operate in practice.  It also touches upon the interaction between resolution regimes and bank structural reform, noting the way in which bank ring-fencing, as will be implemented in the UK via the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill, represents a back-up strategy to resolution, under which essential payment services and insured deposits would be provided by a “super-resolvable” ring-fenced and separately capitalised bank.  This, it is believed, should make it easier for the UK authorities to “retreat to maintaining at least the most basic payments services” if a preferred strategy of top-down resolution of a whole group could not be executed.

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