Bank schemes compromised by Vickers report

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Large bank pension schemes could lose out financially on insolvency if proposals set out in the Vickers Report become legislation, a law firm warns.

One of the proposals in John Vickers' report for the Independent Commission on Banking, published last month, is for introducing depositor preference, so that deposits insured by the Financial Serv...

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