The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has gained some useful experience from a single financial services regulator in the UK. It reflects the outcome of a long process of gradual change in the regulation of Britain’s financial sector. The process of regulatory change was itself motivated by, and was at times a catalyst for, more fundamental changes in the structure of the regulated industry. Thus to understand the policy background to the Act it is necessary to understand the processes of both industry and regulatory change extending back over several decades.
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