What the FCA's Twitter policy means for you

TWITTER

Nicola Brittain
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Twitter has become an indispensable tool for many advisers - so how do they feel about the regulator inviting itself to the party?

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chairman, Martin Wheatley, made clear the regulator’s intentions to make better use of Twitter in an interview with the Daily Mail in the days leading up to the transfer of power from the Financial Services Authority. He said the new regulator would be much more sensitive to information about financial products and the way they are sold. “As part of our new plan to check on firms, we will look at how they make their money and scrutinise where their margins are. What’s new is that we won’t just be relying on regulatory reports back from firms, but on repo...

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