FCA’s Sarah Pritchard urges agile approach as increase in financial crime looms

FCA markets director Sarah Pritchard advocates “agile and dynamic” response to wave of financial crime fueled by UK cost-of-living crisis

With more than seven in 10 people reporting they have been targeted by financial scams, the FCA’s executive director of markets, Sarah Pritchard, has warned that financial crime is going to become “even more prolific during the cost-of-living crisis”.

In a speech at the Financial Crime Summit in London early

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