UK adopts a marker put down by Argentina

Last year Argentina´s Cristina Kirchner nationalized 10 private pension funds arguing it was “necessary to protect retirees in the global financial crisis” We know different, she needed the money to feed the government coffers.

And so today when Brooke Masters and Patrick Jenkins report on the UK regulator announcing rules that “could require UK banks to increase their holdings of high-quality government bonds” we cannot but reflect over how in this small world you never really know who influences who. “FSA puts down a global marker” October 6.