UK MPs urge separation of Financial Conduct Authority functions

Parliamentary committee suggests enforcement should be separated from FCA

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The Treasury Committee recommends the separation of the enforcement team from the FCA

The chairman of the UK parliament's Treasury Select Committee (TSC), Andrew Tyrie, has called for a "serious re-examination" of the case for a separate enforcement body for financial services in the wake of a heavily critical review of UK bank HBOS, published today (July 26).

"The case for placing the Financial Conduct Authority's [FCA] enforcement function in a separate body – proposed by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards in 2013, and later rejected by the Treasury – has been

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