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NEWS: Plan to ‘name and shame’ UK banks in AML probes grew into controversial ‘lightning rod,’ FCA admits

Therese Chambers, the FCA's joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight. Credit: FCA

By Paul O’Donoghue, Senior Correspondent

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has conceded that its strategy to ‘name and shame’ some companies under investigation has become a “lightning rod”.

The admission is another indication that the regulator will water down its plans after it sent out similar signals in July.

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