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Not the FCA’s fault if more companies list in UK but then fail, Pritchard says

By Sofia Gerace ( June 27, 2025, 13:59 GMT | Insight) -- The deputy chief of the UK Financial Conduct Authority has said it's not the authority's fault if more companies choose to list in London following the FCA's overhaul of the listings regime — but subsequently fail. Sarah Pritchard argued that bold reforms come with risk, but that the overhaul was agreed with the industry and government. “If we have more companies listing, then some of them will fail, and that should be OK, and the first reaction shouldn't be: ‘there must be something wrong with the regulation’,” she said today.The deputy chief of the Financial Conduct Authority has said it's not the authority's fault if more companies choose to list in the UK following the FCA's overhaul of the listings regime — but subsequently fail. Sarah Pritchard argued that bold reforms come with risk, but that the overhaul of the regime was agreed with the industry and government....

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