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Punt on UK banks?
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NatWest, Lloyds, Barclays all doing share buy backs and due to pay a dividend. I guess the question is if UK banks were stressed would they be paying shareholders directly/indirectly?0
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No, and there is a precedent for this. In 2020 at the beginning of the panic around Covid the Bank asked banks and insurers* to stop. Of course they might also cut or suspend voluntarily.inflationbuster said:NatWest, Lloyds, Barclays all doing share buy backs and due to pay a dividend. I guess the question is if UK banks were stressed would they be paying shareholders directly/indirectly?
*Notably Legal & General refused, saying that the Bank was panicking unnecessarily.0
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