FCA promotes former IFA David Geale to policy director

Carmen Reichman
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has promoted its former head of savings, investments and distribution policy, David Geale, to director of policy.

Geale, who has worked at the regulator for the past ten years following a stint as a financial adviser, is responsible for advice and distribution, disclosure and promotions, pension reform, life assurance, asset management and crowd-funding within the regulator's supervision and policy, risk and research division. He worked on data collection rules for advisers and recently admitted the regulator would u-turn on some of its post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) rules for filing Retail Mediation Activities Returns (RMAR). Geale also appeared at a Treasury select committee grilling in ...

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