Bank of England job fears as Bailey warns of tough choices

Staff astatine the Bank of England are connected alert for imaginable occupation cuts successful Threadneedle Street aft the governor, Andrew Bailey, warned of pugnacious decisions astir the institution's aboriginal outgo base.

Sky News has learnt that Mr Bailey informed Bank of England employees successful a memo past week that it was taking a elaborate look astatine costs, though it did not specifically notation to the imaginable of redundancies.

One root said the memo had been sent portion Mr Bailey was attending the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathering successful Washington.

Its precise wording was unclear connected Monday, but 1 root said it had warned of "tough choices" that would request to beryllium made arsenic the slope accelerated its concern successful caller technology.

They added that managers had been briefed to expect to person to marque savings of betwixt 6% and 8% of their operating budgets.

The Bank of England employed 5,810 radical astatine the extremity of February, of whom conscionable implicit 5,000 were full-time, according to its yearly report.

Those numbers were marginally higher than successful the erstwhile year.

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The cardinal bank's budget, funded done a levy, is expected to beryllium £596m successful the existent fiscal year.

The workforce figures see the Prudential Regulation Authority, Britain's main banking regulator, which is acceptable to get a caller brag adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile Sam Woods steps down aft 2 presumption successful the role.

A Bank of England spokesperson declined to remark connected the contents of Mr Bailey's memo.

They besides declined to supply details of the timing of immoderate erstwhile rounds of redundancies astatine the bank.