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FCA pledge to be more assertive rings hollow amid enforcement drops
By 
Neil Hodge2021-07-19T16:22:00
A steady decrease in enforcement activity makes it easy to question whether the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority is in position to become the “more innovative, assertive, and adaptive regulator” it pledges to be.
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