Updated: Former FSA-chief Hector Sants named as single guidance body chair
Former Financial Services Association (FSA) chief executive Hector Sants has been appointed as chair of the new, incoming single financial guidance and claims body.
Sants (pictured), who headed up the Financial Conduct Authority's predecessor between 2007 and 2012, will officially take up the post on 3 October for a five-year term. However, ahead of this date,...
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