The terms of all three executive members Governor Shirakawa and Deputy Governors Yamaguchi and Nishimura will end in April and March of next year.

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The chief executive of Barclays, Bob Diamond, claims that the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Paul Tucker, had flagged concerns from senior figures in Whitehall over why Barclays was always towards the top end of Libor pricing.

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Fourth, on the assumption that Lord Turner, the chairman of the FSA, becomes the new Deputy Governor for Financial Regulation (my sense is that the chief executive of the FSA, Hector Sants, is planning to leave the regulatory fray next year), we'd see the start of a compelling contest to succeed Mervyn King as Governor in 2013.

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