Tim Sargisson: FCA or R&A?

Let me start by posing a question: how many people reading this piece have taken the time to read the 2019 Business Plan recently published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)? Now here is another: if you haven't, why not? I put the same question to a group of financial advisers at a recent presentation and the response was underwhelming. I am not suggesting there is any dereliction of duty in not reading this document. It just came as a surprise that anyone authorised and regulated or holding a control function would not see it as important to read the regulator's business plan. ...