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UK banks can restart dividend payments halted due to Covid, regulator says

By Fiona Maxwell
  • 10 Dec 2020 11:39
  • 24 Feb 2021 04:54
UK banks have been given the go-ahead to restart shareholder distributions in a limited fashion by the Bank of England’s prudential regulator, which banned them due to Covid-19 in order to keep lenders' capital inside the financial system.
After agreeing with banks in March this year that they should suspend dividends

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Fiona Maxwell

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Fiona Maxwell is a financial services senior correspondent at MLex in London. She began her career as a reporter for Risk.net, writing about EU post-crisis regulation, and later worked for POLITICO in Brussels, covering the intersect between financial policy and politics. Prior to joining MLex, Fiona worked at the Bank of England as a policy adviser in the prudential policy directorate.

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