Five UK firms have won mandates advising some of the UK’s largest banks on splitting their retail and investment banking operations to comply with incoming regulations.

The rules, recommended by John Vickers in 2011 and set to come into effect in 2019, are intended to protect the public by ensuring that if a bank were to crash its retail banking operations would be unaffected by problems in its riskier investment banking business.

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