AIFA adds to calls to dismantle FSA

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The FSA should be broken up to help prevent the kind of failures which led to the credit crunch and global financial crisis, according to AIFA.

Publishing its report into the future of financial regulation today, the association has also called for the Bank of England to be given a more central role in managing macro-economic regulation. The report analysed the crisis and its build up, as well as a number of proposals to reform both the international and UK systems of financial regulation, to prevent such a catastrophic event from happening again. AIFA's director general, Chris Cummings, says we should not rush to implement new regulatory structures if better supervision will suffice, but the report suggests a break-up of the F...

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