Tuesday, November 10, 2009

City regulator issues jail threat


Hector Sants, the head of the City regulator, has issued a stiff warning to financial firms including the threat of jail for those flouting the rules.

Firms had still failed to accept a "collective responsibility" for the financial crisis, said the Financial Services Authority's chief executive.

The FSA would now step in to police financial products before they were offered to customers, he said.

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