Chris Davies: The FCA business plan 2020/21

Focusing on key outcomes

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Chris Davies takes a view on the FCA's business plan for 2020/21, looking at what the regulator expects from firms and its views on the future of regulation...

In its latest 2020/21 business plan the FCA outlines 5 key areas of concern and risk: there is a good level of operational resilience  understand firms' financial resilience so that firms can fail in an orderly manner markets can function, enabling price formation and orderly trading activity customers are treated fairly customers are aware of the risk of, and protected from, scams In her speech earlier this month, the FCA's executive director of supervision Megan Butler outlined the regulator's response to Covid-19 and expectations for the rest of 2020. The speech highl...

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