“…While LTD may not be fully appreciated by the academic community, it is a regulatory standard used by central banks (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 2016; DiSalvo and Johnston, 2017; European Banking Authority, 2017; Boďa and Zimková, 2020). Since the 2007–2008 financial crisis, there has been increasing focus on the use of LTD as a measure of liquidity and a tool for macro prudential policy to mitigate liquidity risk (Goodhart, 2014; Van den End, 2016; Satria et al , 2016; Boďa and Zimková, 2020, 2021) and a predictor of bank vulnerability to crises (Jordà et al , 2021). By way of Trend analysis and Panel Regression, we examine the impact of changing severity of government controls on LTD ratio for the period 1945–2012 for Major British Banking Group (MBBGs) [1].…”