Le Ministre britannique des Finances, Georges Osborne, a déclaré au Parlement le 11 septembre que le Royaume-Uni avait besoin d'un Gouverneur de la Banque d'Angleterre crédible à la fois sur les marchés financiers et vis-à-vis des banques. Pour cela, en premier lieu, il va pour la première fois procéder par offre d'emploi dans The Economist et, en second lieu, modifier les conditions d'exercice des fonctions du Gouverneur, n'ayant plus qu'un seul mandat, mais plus long, et étant en charge non seulement de la supervision bancaire mais encore de la stabilité financière.

The Executive Board of Governors of the North America Federal Bank had only four governors on seven seats established. But two people, Jerome Powell (Banker), and Jeremy Stein (Economist) appointed by the President of the United States Barak Obama, could not take their function, because their appointment in December 2011, was not approved by the Senate. It was enough that two parties will disagree with each other, while Mr. Powell is Republican and Mr. Stein is democratic, to paralyse the whole because of the willingness of opposition of the Republican Senator David Vitter. The JP Morgan case led the two parties to an arrangement and the appointments were approved by the Senate on May 18, 2012.