The banking sector needs keeping in line

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The credit crunch has not ended since I talked about it a few weeks ago, so I feel safe coming back to it. In the past few weeks, we have had major UK banks report figures that range from shocking in the case of Alliance & Leicester, to poor from Lloyds TSB, to more than decent from HSBC.

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