Govt Whip calls for Keydata crisis talks on FSA role

Laura Miller
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Government Whip and MP for Norwich North Chloe Smith is calling for an official meeting with Hector Sants on the FSA's role in Keydata's collapse.

The Conservative minister wants to meet Hector Sants in Westminster to grill him on what the FSA has done to date within its powers to help investors who have lost money in the Keydata debacle. She will ask Sants to tell her exactly what the FSA knew about the investment firm's collapse and when - questions investors have been putting to the regulator for months without answer. David Cameron's minister also wants to know what the FSA is doing to identify, and plug, any gaps which may exist for the better protection of consumers, "in this case or other such cases". She and other Nor...

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