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Hogg's hope for embattled boards

18.10.11
City comment: A major consequence of the financial crisis has been the change in the approach of the Financial Services Authority from light touch to a new and much more intrusive form of regulation... more

FSA sparks row after rejecting MPs' call to delay savings sale reforms

21.07.11
A major row breaks between the powerful head of the Treasury Select Committee and the City regulator as the Financial Services Authority dismisses MPs' calls to put off radical changes in how savings are sold for a year... more

City Spy: FSA chiefs earning more than Mervyn

14.06.11
Funny that the Financial Services Authority should pay so much higher wages than the Bank of England - particularly when the Bank is going to take over some of the FSA's responsibilities when it is disbanded by Chancellor George Osborne... more

FSA’s Hector Sants: We will allow even biggest banks to fail

13.12.10
The City’s top regulator Hector Sants says one of his priorities when he takes charge of the new bank watchdog will be to convince the public and politicians that in future even the largest banks will allowed to fail... more

Andrew Marr is wrong — bloggers are good news

13.10.10
Media Analysis: Andrew Marr’s attack reads as if it was made seven or eight years ago, when there were plenty of internet nay-sayers around... more

City Spy: FSA chief’s U-turn is a Pain for Jon

30.06.10
It's been a tough few weeks for Jon Pain. One minute he is being lined up to replace Hector Sants as interim head of the Financial Services Authority... more

George Osborne’s neat footwork sees Hector Sants stay in the game

17.06.10
Comment: The loudest applause at the Chancellor's Mansion House speech came for the news that Hector Sants is staying on for another three years... more

Hector Sants wades in on City shake-up by George Osborne

17.06.10
Good judgments rather than the structure of regulation are the key to effective financial supervision, says Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority... more

Sally Dewar quits FSA with uncertain times ahead

11.06.10
The Financial Services Authority suffers another major defection with the departure of Sally Dewar... more

FSA gets tough and hires 400 extra staff

17.03.10
The Financial Services Authority announces it will hire an extra 460 staff to toughen up supervision of the City... more

Rules alone won’t make the City honest

15.03.10
City Comment: A generation ago the City had honest institutions but dishonest people. Today it is the other way round ... more

City Spy: Making sense of Hector Sants's exit from FSA

10.02.10
Just how “dramatic” was Hector Sants's resignation as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority? Er, not very at all... more

FSA chief Hector Sants steps down

09.02.10
The City’s top regulator, Hector Sants, is quitting as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority... more

Comment: Politicians must ensure that all banks change their ways

12.08.09
Listen to most politicians about the causes of the credit crunch and they will cite greedy fat cat bankers with their over-the-top bonuses and mega-rich, two-fingers-to-everyone-else lifestyles ... more

Watchdog warns banks over a return to big bonuses

12.08.09
City regulator Hector Sants today warned London-based banks that they should not return to their “bad old ways” ... more

Tory promise to abolish FSA creates havoc, chief says

24.07.09
The Financial Services Authority could struggle to operate effectively after the Tories revealed their plans to abolish it, chief executive Hector Sants is warning ... more

Top City watchdog turns down £130,000 bonus

24.06.09
The City's top regulator has turned down his bonus for the last year, sending a signal to bankers and directors that they need to cut back on their fat-cat rewards... more

Code can't really be our best shot

18.03.09
When you meet someone these days who was until recently a non-executive director of one of the banks, it does not take long before the conversation turns to what went wrong. ... more

Shareholders must raise their game to stop the rot

13.03.09
After two years in which the market value of the banking sector as measured by the FTSE 100 index has gone from £325 billion to £35 billion, it is surprising how rarely people ask what the institutional shareholders were doing when the bank managements were setting off down the path to destruction... more

Be very afraid, boss of top City watchdog warns managements

12.03.09
People should “be very frightened” of the City regulator, Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants said... more

Crisis sparks leap in banks' watchdog bill

12.02.09
Regulation: The fees High Street banks pay to the City watchdog will double next year as a result of the economic crisis. The total bill for the Financial Services Authority will rise by £117 million to £415 million in the coming year... more

Guarantee on savings raised to £50,000

03.10.08
The City watchdog raised the guarantee on personal savings from £35,000 to £50,000 as it moved to restore confidence in the banking sector... more

Commentary: Short-sellers were just feeding on weakness of the banks

19.09.08
Finally, the cavalry has arrived. As they haul themselves out of their upturned wagons and pick themselves gingerly over the carcasses of fallen comrades, those bankers still left standing are entitled to ask of the Financial Services Authority, where have you been?... more

'Death sentence' for short-sellers

19.09.08
City speculators who bet on bank shares falling face a "bloodbath"... more

Deal the watchdog was begging for

14.07.08
The £1.26 billion takeover of Alliance & Leicester by Spanish giant Santander will delight many in the City - none more so than Hector Sants... more

Let's not rush to over-regulate

01.07.08
Marketing folk tell you the reputation of a company is not destroyed by the mistakes it makes, but by the way it recovers having made one... more

Large pay rises for FSA chiefs despite Rock fiasco

30.06.08
The two men in charge of the City watchdog which oversaw the collapse and nationalisation of Northern Rock received inflation-busting pay rises last year... more

Watchdog sniffing out bonus peril

16.05.08
I despair of ever getting banks to realise that incentivising staff to do deals, make loans and expand the balance sheet regardless of the quality is asking for trouble... more

FSA staff get same bonuses in spite of bank crisis

06.05.08
The watchdog which admitted a catalogue of failures over the Northern Rock crisis has dished out the same level of bonuses to staff as last year... more

Era of cheap mortgages over says City watchdog

27.02.08
Millions of homeowners have been warned they face higher mortgage bills amid predictions the cheap credit era is over... more


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