FSA to use secondments to boost its staffing levels

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The FSA is looking to increase its staff levels by making use of more seconded personnel from the fi...

The FSA is looking to increase its staff levels by making use of more seconded personnel from the financial services industry itself. The FSA's chairman Howard Davis said a blueprint had been created by the regulator and it would now try to encourage major firms to allow staff to be seconded. Speaking at the FSA's first annual meeting held last week in London, Davis said there were confidentiality issues still to be addressed as the FSA handles market sensitive information. He stressed the FSA would be talking to the industry about the plan. The regulator currently has around 50 secondmen...

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