Bank of England official says no evidence of bigger being better in banking; UK regulation should risk losing some financial business

Bank of England’s executive director for financial stability, Andy Haldane, says “there is not so much as a scintilla of evidence of bigger being better in banking is the truth of it. A lot of the noise around that really is rhetoric.” He also believes that UK should support regulation that risks losing some financial business

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