FSA Chairman discusses UK regulatory changes
In a speech Tuesday to the British Bankers' Association, Lord Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) discussed a new approach to regulation in the U.K. Specifically, Lord Turner discussed a "major shift in philosophy" towards a "more pre-emptive and intrusive approach to supervision". This would involve analyzing trends in the economic and market environment to identify potential risks to consumers, examining firms' business models to understand the drivers of profitability, reviewing whether firms have product development and approval processes that weed out innappropriately marketed or harmful products and taking action to ensure customers are protected where incentives, structures or products are found that would likely lead to poor customer outcomes.
