28 banking update


 uncertainty


Chartered Accountants


Exactly when and how the findings of the Vickers Report may be implemented remains to be seen. For the moment UK banks are dealing with more pressing concerns, writes Richard Willsher


   key conclusion was that some   investment banking businesses.  small businesses.


Business Advisers


   banking activities where continuous provision of service         event of the bank’s failure without government solvency   the fence.


Registered Auditors


Richard Somerville | Andrew Beet Sarah Wildey | David Rice


0118 989 9780 www.rice-associates.co.uk www.businessmag.co.uk


So we wait to see what this means in practice. Meanwhile  Trends in Lending publication       that smaller businesses were      pretty much the same level.


   first report into small business   


  that most businesses are able         


    available to businesses, appears,  least, to be hitting its target.       on this number suggesting that it overstates the support the  giving to businesses.


 about the relationship between  appears to be improving.


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the meantime, fears of global recession, the continuing euro  in the market for wholesale,     business customers but banks   political concerns which impact   of our government, regulators   ones, face as much uncertainty  


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – OCTOBER 2011


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