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City minister Lord Myners says every bank needs a cynical Scot

By Louise Armitstead 1209PM GMT eighteen March 2010

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Lord Myners, the City minister, has been outspoken in his critique of banks Lord Myners, the City minister, has been outspoken in his critique of banks Photo RETNA PICTURES

Lord Myners has pronounced that each bank should designate a "cynical Scot" to the review committees as a certain approach of smothering the ambitions of the board.

The City Minister told the Future of Banking Commission on Thursday that the key to guarding opposite an additional predicament is to safeguard that bank play are theme to correct hurdles from a "devils advocate" who would not simply accept the "conventional wisdom".

He told the Commission that "every review cabinet should designate a asocial Scot... someone with an component of dourness" to check the ambitions of the board.

The Future of Banking Commission, whose members embody David Davis, the former shade home secretary, Vince Cable, the Treasury orator for the Liberal Democrats, and John McFall, the authority of the Treasury Select Committee, aims to tell a inform with recommendations for long-term reforms after the ubiquitous choosing this year.

In giving evidence, Lord Myners argued that the purpose of accountants and auditors in the monetary predicament had "not been scrupulously scrutinised". He told the Commission "Very couple of people would contend that auditing is delivering to the expectations." Noting the American review in to the purpose of Ernst & Young in the fall of Lehman Brothers, Lord Myners pronounced "were going to open a new chapter" of scutiny of accountants.

Lord Myners pronounced the piece of the complaint lay with shareholders who unsuccessful to scrutinize auditors, even though the accountants are presumably operative for them, not the companies. Claiming that institutional shareholders had been unprotected as the "last citadel of amateurism", the former account physical education instructor pronounced it is "clear that the banks were owner-less institutions". He pronounced achieving correct shareholder rendezvous was the "fundamental error line in the economies of the grown world."

He additionally called for banks to rivet with their business in "town gymnasium meetings" opposite the country. "We used to transport around assembly business when I was authority of Marks & Spencer, theres no reason because banks shouldnt too."

In an additional recommendation, Lord Myners pronounced banks should not be authorised to go on generating fender increase after "gouging" business for years. "The promissory note industry has enjoyed some-more open funding than any alternative industry in the economy," he said.

The Commission additionally took justification from Lord Turner and Hector Sants, respectively the authority and arch senior manager of the Financial Services Authority (FSA); Philip Collins, authority of the Office of Fair Trading; and Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor.

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