FCA bans ex-Co-op Bank chair Paul Flowers over lewd calls and emails

The regulator found between 15 April 2010 and 5 June 2013 Flowers' conduct "demonstrated a lack of fitness and propriety required to work in financial services". He was deputy chair of the Co-op Group and chair Co-op Bank. Between the above dates he was found to have: used his work mobile phone to make inappropriate telephone calls to a premium rate chat line in breach of Co-op Group and Co-op Bank policies used his work email account to send and receive sexually explicit and otherwise inappropriate messages, and to discuss illegal drugs, in breach of Co-op Group and Co-op Bank po...