Wednesday, March 03, 2010

FSA 'seduced' by boom years, Lord Turner says


The chairman of the Financial Services Authority has admitted that the regulator was "seduced" into thinking that the economic boom was unstoppable.

Lord Turner told MPs that regulators, governments and executives were led astray by the belief that the good times would continue.

He also told the Treasury Committee there was no guarantee another global financial meltdown could be avoided.

The biggest risk of a repeat was complacency as memories start to fade.

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