The founder of one of London’s biggest hedge funds has given qualified support for a European tax on financial transactions, breaking ranks with many of his peers fiercely opposed to such a measure.
David Harding, chief executive of the $26bn Winton Capital, said he did not object to moves by European Union politicians to levy the tax – dubbed a “bullet aimed at the heart of London” this month by George Osborne, UK chancellor of the exchequer.
“I would be in favour of a low [financial transaction tax],” Mr Harding said, “if part of it was used to finance more supranational regulation of markets.”
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