The European Union, monetary and financial stability, and the Bank of England - speech by Mark Carney
The European Union, monetary and financial stability, and the Bank of England - speech by Mark Carney
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BoE to help smaller lenders compete better in mortgage market
Speech was held at Oxford University > Mark Carney Governor BoE
Britain's government is keen to increase competition in banking, a sector where just four lenders, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Barclays make up 77 percent of high street accounts and dominate mortgage lending.
Chancellor George Osborne has given the Bank of England, whose Prudential Regulation Authority regulates lenders, a new, extra remit to boost competition.
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BoE Deputy Governor and PRA Chief Executive Andrew Bailey said that one way to fulfil this remit will be to help new banks compete better in offering home loans.
Currently, large banks like HSBC and Barclays can use their own models for calculating how much capital to set aside against mortgages. Smaller lenders must use a method set out by regulators, known as the standard approach.
In-house models are more sensitive to risks than the standard approach and come up with a lower capital requirements.
"The consequence of this is that smaller banks and building societies cannot compete effectively in lower risk asset markets such as prime mortgages because the capital requirements are too far apart and in favour of large banks," Bailey told a financial services audience.
"This forces them into riskier assets and undermines their position."
The Bank is taking a twin-track approach: seeking to persuade the European Union to change its bank capital law to ease the burden on smaller lenders; and in the meantime help smaller lenders get approval to use their own models for mortgages.
"We welcome internal model applications by smaller banks and we will do what we can to help them meet the required prudential standards, which are largely set out in the EU legislation," Bailey said.
The BoE has told the EU it wants a more tailored approach to capital requirements at smaller lenders.
"This is an important issue, and one that matters if we are to have growing challenger banks," Bailey said in reference to a new generation of lenders like Virgin, Metro, Aldermore and Atom .
The move will help soften the blow of a new industry-wide surcharge on profits from next year.
The PRA has authorised ten banks in the last two years, and has a "substantial" pipeline of interested parties", Bailey said.
(Reporting by Rueters Huw Jones; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle )
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