Bob Diamond, the former head of Barclays who tried to buy Lehman Brothers before its collapse five years ago, has joined a chorus of criticism over the lack of progress in ending banks’ “too big to fail” status.
Citing “insufficient” progress in ways to safely wind down failing financial giants, Mr Diamond has called for fresh international co-ordination to end the fragmenting approach to bank regulation.
Writing in the Financial Times, the former banking boss expresses an apparent change of heart about the risks that Barclays and other banks were taking in the years before the crisis, by admitting that leverage was “too high in the boom years”.
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