Sheila Nicoll to leave FSA in April

Laura Miller
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Sheila Nicoll, director of policy at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has announced her decision to leave the organisation when it transitions to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in April this year.

Since her appointment as director of conduct policy in 2009, she has steered the FSA's changing conduct agenda, laying the foundations for the new conduct strategy that helped inform the thinking for how the FCA plans to operate, the FSA said. She has delivered some of the FSA's flagship policy work, in particular the Retail Distribution Review, Mortgage Market Review and the funding review of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Sheila joined the FSA from the Investment Management Association in October 2007. She was director of retail firms division for two years, supervising...

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