Bank of England says weakening regulators would undermine market reforms


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LONDON - Weaking the independence of regulators would undermine Britain's proposed reforms to make capital markets more efficient, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday.

"Anything that would weaken the independence of regulators would undermine the aims of the reforms," Bailey said in a letter to parliament's Treasury Select Committee.

(Reporting by Huw Jones, editing by Sinead Cruise)

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