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FCA’s plan to delete staff emails after 12 months raises accountability concerns

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The plan has been criticised by employees as well as campaigners.

Plans by the UK FCA to to auto-delete all emails from staff inboxes within 12 months of them being received have raised eyebrows at a time when the regulator is facing growing criticism of the way it operates.

The new arrangement will come into force from April this year, the Financial

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