'Use it or lose it': FCA warns amid consumer investment harm clampdown

Firms fined more than £80m throughout 2019 and 2020

Mike Sheen
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned regulated firms to "use or lose" their regulatory permissions or risk having them revoked, amid a wider clampdown on potential consumer harm from the regulator.

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