FCA under pressure to close cases into senior management amid name and shame row Business The City watchdog is under pressure to punish more bosses for flouting its rules after new figures revealed it had closed only half the investigations opened over the past seven years. Under the watchdog’s senior manager’s regime, introduced in 2016 in response to the financial crisis, staff in positions of power at financial services firms [...]
City lawyer urges the government to ‘take back control’ of the FCA business A City lawyer launched an extraordinary call for the government to “take back control” of the regulator yesterday after Jeremy Hunt rounded on the FCA over its plans to name firms under investigation. The Chancellor told the FT he hoped the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would “re-look” at its decision to make public the subjects of its [...]