In a press release today the regulator detailed capital and liquidity requirements of large bank holding companies and systemically important non-bank financial firms.

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Higher international capital and liquidity requirements, plus the government's decision to put the Bank of England back in charge of regulating banks, are this government's attempt to have the benefits of free financial markets without the accompanying disasters.

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