"UCITA provides (consumers) protections equal to or more than current law, " said Carlyle "Connie" Ring, chairman of the NCCUSL committee that worked on the statute, in a written statement recently sent to all the members of NCCUSL ahead of the Denver meeting.

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The two Lloyds executives threw weight behind Chancellor George Osborne's announcement earlier in the day that the forthcoming Banking Reform Bill would "electrify" the ring-fence, as recommended by the banking standards committee.

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Chair of the committee Helen Mary Jones AM raised concerns over the soft ring fencing of money which she compared to a soft boiled egg which "hangs together until you break the shell".

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None of this is trivial - not least because George Osborne's banking policies, which include putting a ring-fence around retail banks and giving the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the power to vary banks' capital ratios, are out of step with what most of the eurozone wants and plans.

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Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, even got to ring the opening bell at the NYSE today, with CEOs and other deficit deacons at her side.

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