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Tuesday 26 March 2013

 

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Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill Committee 95-105

 

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Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill

 

Limits on excessive market power

 

Nigel Mills

 

NC22

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

With effect from 1 January 2020 no ring-fenced body or group of ring-fenced

 

bodies may have excessive market power in respect of a core banking service.

 

(2)    

For the purposes of section (1) above core banking service means—

 

(a)    

the provision of personal current accounts and overdrafts;

 

(b)    

the provision of liquidity management services for small and medium-

 

sized enterprises;

 

(c)    

the provision of mortgage services;

 

(d)    

the provision of savings accounts;

 

(e)    

the provision of unsecured personal loans.

 

(3)    

For the purposes of section (1) excessive market power is defined as a market

 

share equal to 20% or higher.

 

(4)    

If any ring-fenced body or group of ring-fenced bodies is deemed by the

 

appropriate regulator to have excessive market power in relation to any core

 

banking service for two successive accounting periods, with effect from six

 

months after the end of the second accounting period, the part 4A permission for

 

the ring fenced body or group of ring-fenced bodies shall be treated as having

 

been cancelled as it relates to that core banking service.’.

 


 
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