Ashford and Reston join FSCS board

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The Financial Services Authority has appointed Tony Ashford and Rosalind Reston as non-executive directors of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, with effect from 1 February 2007.

Ashford is currently the chairman of the HSBC pensions trust and a non-executive director of AIB (UK) Limited and the Jubilee Sailing Trust. He worked for HSBC from 1985 until 2005, rising to the position of general manager, personal manager and executive committee member in 2000. He previously worked for Thomas Cook and British Steel Corporation. Reston is a solicitor, an authorised insolvency practitioner and an accredited mediator and until her recent retirement, when she decided to pursue a portfolio career, she was a partner at Lovells LLP. David Hall, chairman of the FSCS ...

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