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09/07/2012
Miliband Calls For Banking 'Code Of Conduct'
Following the recent scandals within the industry, Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for a code of conduct to be set up for bankers.
He argued that those guilty of wrongdoing should be "struck off", as happens to doctors and lawyers.
Mr Miliband told an audience of financiers it was time to move from "casino" to "stewardship" banking.
He also outlined plans to set up a specialist financial crime unit within the Serious Fraud Office.
The government argues it is already reforming the banking system and that Labour governments did not deal with most of the current problems.
Mr Miliband's speech, at the Co-operative Bank in London, follows a record fine of £290m for Barclays after some of its staff were found to have rigged inter-bank lending rates during the middle and end of the last decade, when his party was in power.
The Serious Fraud Office has also confirmed it is investigating.
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He argued that those guilty of wrongdoing should be "struck off", as happens to doctors and lawyers.
Mr Miliband told an audience of financiers it was time to move from "casino" to "stewardship" banking.
He also outlined plans to set up a specialist financial crime unit within the Serious Fraud Office.
The government argues it is already reforming the banking system and that Labour governments did not deal with most of the current problems.
Mr Miliband's speech, at the Co-operative Bank in London, follows a record fine of £290m for Barclays after some of its staff were found to have rigged inter-bank lending rates during the middle and end of the last decade, when his party was in power.
The Serious Fraud Office has also confirmed it is investigating.
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