STRAIGHT TALK: Mark Steward, executive director, enforcement division, SFC

Consider the difficult life of Mark Steward, head of enforcement of Hong Kong’s market regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission. Pilloried on one side by retail investors – who carry signs attacking the SFC for not protecting them against losses on Lehman mini-bonds – and criticised by the banking industry as being too assertive, the commission can’t seem to catch…

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