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Ex-Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief executive Sir Hector Sants is being courted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a financial taskforce, just two months after leaving a key role at Barclays with "extreme stress and exhaustion".

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is expected to reach its conclusion on whether the merger of Australian data and software provider IRESS with technology provider Avelo would hinder competition in the market in February.

Outside analysts have cost the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) £76,885 since June, for work done predominantly on consumer credit.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has hired Maggie Craig, a former director of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), as an adviser on policy issues.

Matthew Moore has left his role as finance director of Aegon-owned advice network Origen Financial Services following a management reshuffle.

A group of Lifemark-backed Keydata bond investors are renewing their efforts to organise a public inquiry into the collapse of the investment scheme nearly five years ago, by lobbying their MPs to act.

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Peter Craddock, a director at the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA), is among three new names on a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) committee responsible for approving applications and issuing warning notices.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is finding it difficult to measure the true effects of the ‘advice gap' but will make it a priority over the coming year, according to chief executive Martin Wheatley.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is gearing up to interview London-based advisers about their risk assessment processes as it works its way across the country.