Europe’s Banks Urged to Pursue More Capital-Heavy Unit Cuts

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The president of the European Banking Federation is urging lenders in the region to reinvent themselves and discard the areas of their business that place too large a capital burden on their balance sheets.

“Banks need to be more efficient, that’s very simple,” EBF President Christian Clausen said in an interview in Stockholm last week. “Everything that can be done will be done in terms of moving business.”