Sam Woods: Mutual interests
Sam Woods: Mutual interests
Speech by Mr Sam Woods, Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation of the Bank of England and Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), at the Building Societies Annual Conference, 5 May 2021. Central bank speech |
Introduction
It s very good to be back at the Building Society Association s Annual Conference. Last time I spoke at the conference we were all in the QEII conference centre and the BSA was celebrating its 150
th birthday by listening to a speech from me, which illustrates the powers of endurance the industry possesses.
Mike Regnier had also just been announced as the new Chair of the BSA, and celebrated this by peppering me with awkward questions, just like he used to do at the business school in France where I first met him in 1998. As today is his last day I m worried he is going to ask me even more difficult questions, in which case I think he will find that the W