A change in tone by FSA bossman Hector Sants is well received by the chairman
"Yes - but why would we want to pretend to be at a Financial Services Authority conference for retail financial services firms at all?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we endured too many shots of Joffy's Green Death at Anywhere But Mavericks. "It just doesn't sound like the sort of thing we would ever do." "No arguments there," replied the chairman. "But I just think it might be more polite - or at least diplomatic - to go down that route than to do some Wish You Were Here? type report from this splendid conference in sunny Cape To...
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