The committee has suggested that it should only be optional for a two year transitional period, becoming compulsory thereafter for large cross-border companies, with small businesses being forced to join a common system after a further five years.
However, the problem say the bankers is that in the absence of some kind of entente between the banking class and political class, the banks continue to feel discombobulated, and that makes it harder for them to join the common struggle to rebuild our economy (bankers, of course, say this more in sorrow, rather than as a threat).