7:14 7:28 7:43: Well, NC’s commentary is spot on so far: as forecast, I’m drinking coffee and the web site’s unresponsive. A really astute blogger would have had another hour in bed. A few gleanings from Vickers on BBC Radio 4 – better resolution, ringfencing of deposits but not a full breakup, 10% core capital, chop Lloyds/HBOS up more to promote retail bank competition.
Hang it, I’ll make a start on Links and come back to this later.
9:00 The site is still down. UK web site capacity planning rules! I’ll report, umm, later.
Of course FT AV managed to get their mitts on a copy hours ago
if you go to the BBC you can download the report there. the ICB website crashed at about 730am.
ICB report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11_04_11_ibc_report.pdf