Banning Failure

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/12/banning-failure

The chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner, has an op-ed piece in the Financial Times floating the following idea: "It would, for instance, be possible to set a rule that no board member or senior executive of a failing bank will be allowed to perform a similar function at a bank unless they can positively demonstrate to the regulator that they warned against and sought to reduce the risk-taking that led to failure."

It would be "possible" to set similar rules for regulators and central bankers, too, but Lord Turner doesn't suggest that. Imagine trying to run a bank amid the proliferation of cover-your-rear type memos that such a rule would spawn.

by Editor  |  Dec 8, 2010 at 1:31 pm Related Topics:  Banking, Capital Markets Regulation, Energy receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list