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We’ve decided to start a blog. We thought it would be the best way to keep you up to date with our latest thinking on investments, retirement planning, business related issues and our activity in the community. We’ll even interview our clients and share their stories, so you can get a clear picture of what it really means to work with the team at Clarkson Wayman Ball.
In April 2013, the regulatory body for the financial services sector was split into two new organisations: the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), allowing for increased regulation of the sector following the recent banking crisis. The new FCA will monitor the conduct of companies to ensure consumers are protected, and responsibility for ensuring banks are financially stable will come under the new PRA.
The head of the FCA, Martin Wheatley, said that the creation of the new regulatory organisations would allow the FCA to “predominantly focus on conduct and to be focused more on consumers than the FSA has been”. He has pledged to engage with consumer groups so the FCA can make decisions with customers’ priorities at the outset.
Mr Wheatley said that the initial challenge for the FCA would be to deal with legacy issues from the FSA and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. A key objective for the new structure is to rebuild consumer trust in insurance companies, banks, lenders or financial advisors.
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