Former FSA-chief Hector Sants named as single guidance body chair

New body due by end of 2018

Victoria McKeever
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Former Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief executive Hector Sants has been appointed as chair of the new, incoming single financial guidance and claims body.

Sants (pictured), who headed up the Financial Conduct Authority's predecessor between 2007 and 2012, was listed as chair on the Cabinet Office website. The new guidance body is set to be up and running by winter this year, pensions and financial inclusion minister Guy Opperman said in March. It will combine the Money Advice Service, The Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise into one single guidance body. Single financial guidance body and cold-call ban provisions become law Following his time at the FSA, Sants became head of compliance at Barclays Bank at the start of 2013 but...

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