When the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) emailed journalists a heads-up on Saturday its chief executive was being profiled in the Sunday Times, do you think it knew the piece would go quite so much with the 'Big Sexy Turtle' angle?
FCA boss Andrew Bailey (pictured) clearly had a busy time last week - not only launching the regulator's mission statement and addressing the City Banquet at Mansion House but also discussing his long-standing fondness for West Brom, Leicester Tigers and mountain biking in Idaho while apparently being a bit sensitive on matters such as recent ‘potshots' from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is also said to be "fed up with the current fashion" for attacking the loose monetary policy of his former employer, the Bank of England, in the years since the financial crisis bit. "The alternative ...
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