The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has set out a demanding 2010 programme, requiring greater resources and an "inherently more confrontational and risky" approach.
Outgoing FSA chief executive Hector Sants reaffirmed the message that the old "light-touch" is being replaced by a new, pro-reform approach.
Sants' comments come as the regulator said it would hire 460 additional staff this year to help in the implementation of the Solvency II regime and to deliver a more intensive supervisory approach.
In the FSA...
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