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Banking inquiry: Shake-up is needed

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The head of an independent commission on Britain's banks is expected to say today that a major shake-up is needed - including whether the UK's biggest banks should be broken up

Sir John Vickers is to set out his thoughts in a speech this afternoon. The BBC's business correspondent Nils Blythe told the Today programme what the commission has been tasked with.


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