Wheatley returns to industry as hedge fund adviser

Former chief executive of the FCA

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Former chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Martin Wheatley, is returning to financial services with a role advising a Hong Kong based hedge fund.

Wheatley, who was booted out of the regulator by the then Chancellor George Osborne about two years ago, joined the advisory board of Oasis Management, a Hong Kong hedge fund that invests in equities. It is a familiar area for the former head of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission. Wheatley told the Financial Times he also had "a couple things on the boil" in the financial technology sector, but those projects were not yet public. Wheatley was brought in as the first chief executive of the FCA when it was formed in 2013 with a mandate to clean up financial services follow...

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