Vulnerable UK banks still paying billions in dividends to shareholders

``Between 2010 and 2015 HSBC paid out £37bn in dividends, Barclays paid out £6.3bn and Lloyds paid out £2.3bn according to the calculations of Sascha Steffen of the University of Mannheim, Viral Acharya of New York University and Diane Pierret of the University of Lausanne. If this cash had been retained by the banks it could have boosted their capital buffers by an equivalent amount.''