Ever since 2010, UK banks have been under pressure to strengthen their balance sheets.
It led to calls for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to impose similar levies on UK banks.
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The Committee therefore welcomed this morning's announcement of a Government programme to recapitalise the major UK banks.
It is understood that UK banks will not be required to raise capital to bolster their reserves.
The Council will lose its power to govern the payments systems for UK banks, under new proposals.
Under the banking code, UK banks are supposed to allow all consumers to open a basic current account.
He said it would be hated by the biggest UK banks, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Barclays.
The banking commission was set up by the government last June to review UK banks after the financial crisis.
This was a higher level than all of the other major UK banks.
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As expected, the four UK banks passed the test - Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group.
It is currently set at an annual tax of 0.075% on the value of all of the debts of UK banks.
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The various parts of this system (BACs, CHAPS etc) are largely owned by the main established UK banks and effectively self regulated.
European Union banks' exposure to the UAE, and even UK banks' exposure, seems manageable, but adds to pre-existing vulnerabilities including Eastern European exposure.
These CDS prices imply that big UK banks are deriving almost no benefit right now from the implicit protection they receive from taxpayers.
He said uncertainty caused by the eurozone crisis was "contributing to increased funding costs for UK banks and tighter credit conditions for households and businesses".
Just like UK banks, those in Guernsey have to know their customers and report any suspiciously large transactions in case these involve attempts to launder money.
Will the Irish decide that it is in their best interests to take on massive debt so that French and German and UK banks are paid back?
The ECB provided 530bn euros of low-interest loans in February 2012 to 800 banks across the whole of the European Union - including 37.4bn euros to UK banks.
However, they are in harmony with a report just released by the British Bankers Association saying mortgage lending by UK banks rose by almost a third in March.
Persimmon said it was "fully supportive" of the Government's initiatives to increase mortgage availability to 2007 levels - one of the conditions of the bail-out of UK banks.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that UK banks should be able to meet the new capital standard without taxpayers having to inject any new money.
He said the concern centred on how UK banks could be affected by knock-on effects of any Greek default, and called for banks to be more transparent about their exposure.
With 1, 000 branches, 10% of all branches of UK banks, and 7% of the current account market, the enlarged Co-op should represent serious new competition to the giants of British banking.
Last week Barclaycard and Orange announced that credit or debit card holders from all UK banks would be able to load money onto Barclaycard's mobile payments application, in the Quick Tap wallet.
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The government's consultation called on UK banks to look at copying a system pioneered in 1998 by Servibanca in Colombia, which allows customers to make a donation each time they withdraw cash.
So far this year two big UK banks - Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland - have started issuing card readers as extra security devices to customers who use their online bank accounts.
Separately, under the Lending Code, which most UK banks have signed up to, innocent victims of fraud on debit or credit cards will not suffer any financial loss unless they have acted negligently.
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