BOE May Seek to Recover QE Losses From Banks, UK Analyst Says

  • Numis’ Pierce says officials may scrap ‘interest on reserves’
  • Billions of pounds of state savings are ‘gorilla in the room’
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The Bank of England will soon stop paying interest on commercial bank deposits in a move that could save the UK taxpayer billions of pounds but hammer profits among high street lenders, a leading analyst says.