When it comes to effective enforcement, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have been taking separate approaches and have been adopting different leadership styles, according to lawyers’ observations. Since Tom Atkinson took office as executive director of enforcement at the SFC in March 2016, the regulator has become more selective, shifting its focus…
Hong Kong and UK regulators adopt diverging enforcement styles
9 November 2018

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