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FCA chief calls for better insurance for City firms

Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, has told the UK's insurance industry it needs to work on designing better professional indemnity insurance for City workers – which might help reduce its levies on the sector from £340 million this year.

FCA chief executive Andrew Bailey
FCA chief executive Andrew Bailey Photo: FCA

Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, has told the UK's insurance industry it needs to work on designing better professional indemnity insurance for City workers – which might help reduce its levies on the sector from £340 million this year.

On November 22, Bailey used a speech to the Association of British Insurers' annual conference to call on insurers to do more to cover City firms against client losses.

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