ECB monetary loosening, growing competition for UK deposits, and outrage in France over BNP Paribas fine

ECB monetary loosening, growing competition for UK deposits, and outrage in France over BNP Paribas fine

Author: Financial Times June 2, 2014 Duration: 0:43
How the European Central Bank's monetary loosening policy might affect the continent's banking sector, the increasing competition for UK retail depositors' money from new challengers, and the growing political outrage in France over a $10bn fine imposed on BNP Paribas by US regulators. Sam Fleming, financial policy correspondent, Sharlene Goff, retail banking correspondent and Michael Stothard, Paris correspondent, join Martin Arnold.

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