FCA promotes former IFA David Geale to policy director

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 ...