Report into HBOS collapse to criticise bosses
But reports suggest it is now too late to fine any former executives deemed responsible for the lender’s demise and subsequent taxpayer bailout, leaving authorities powerless to levy penal- ties.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) will publish the 500-page report, which has been delayed by more than a year due to lengthy legal wrangling, with a separate 100-page document due alongside it by Andrew Green QC looking at why only one former HBOS executive, Peter Cummings, was formally investigated and fined.
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Hide AdIt is thought that regulators may look to ban ex-HBOS chief executives Andy Hornby and James Crosby, as well as past chairman Lord Stevenson, from working in financial services – the only sanction available as fines are no longer seen as possible, because the report has taken more than six years to produce.
Former HBOS finance director Mike Ellis, now the chairman of Skipton Building Society, has previously been exonerated but could come in for criticism in the new report.