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FCA Board minutes offer a familiar tale

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Gavin Stewart wonders if the FCA can achieve its latest action points or if they are excesses of ambition.

April’s minutes contain a familiar Financial Services Authority / Financial Conduct Authority tale, with the Board agreeing a series of actions for the executive that are likely to be unattainable.

Broadly, they are either: (i) mutually exclusive for a regulator that must balance the tension between its statutory objectives