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UK: FCA chair to head competition watchdog?

By  |  February 14, 2018

According to Sky news, the outgoing Financial Conduct Autority (FCA) chairman John Griffith-Jones, has been shortlisted to head the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) even as the audit firm where he spent most of his career faces demands to be broken up.

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    Sky News has learnt that Mr Griffith-Jones, who steps down as the (FCA) chairman next month, is among a handful of candidates to succeed Lord Currie at the CMA.

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    His inclusion on a shortlist submitted to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  has surprised some in Whitehall.

    Mr Griffith-Jones spent 37 years at KPMG, where he rose to become joint chairman of its European business.

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