Getting Back Its Mojo? Uncertain Times For UK Financial Services

Mick McAteer is an informed and friendly critic of UK financial services and how it handles its customers and the financially excluded. In this webinar he will share his views on the many circumstances from at least 2007, including things such as payment protection insurance (PPI), RBS Global Restructuring Group, Brexit, and now Covid-19, and their effect on the state of UK financial services. He will look at the nature of government support and the changing relationship between government and financial services. Mick will draw upon his career defending consumers to explore recovery and renewal, with a special emphasis on using covid-19 initiatives for reform. Speaker:   Mick McAteer is a campaigner for economic and social justice with long experience of representing consumers at UK and EU level with a focus on financial markets and public policy. He is founder and co-director of The Financial Inclusion Centre, a UK not-for-profit policy and research group (www.inclusioncentre.org.uk). The Centre’s mission is to promote financial markets that work for society. He is also Chair of the anti-poverty charity Z2K, Chair of Registry Trust, and Deputy Chair of the General Consumer Council of Northern Ireland. Previously, he was on the boards of: the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and its predecessor the Financial Services Authority (FSA); the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Professional Oversight Board; The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS); and ShareAction (the movement for Responsible Investment). At Which? (the largest consumer group in Europe, formerly known as Consumers' Association), he led the work on exposing major scandals such as pensions, mortgage endowment, and PPI mis-selling, and work on reform of pensions, insurance and banking industries. Prior to this, he worked for five years for two major fund management firms in London. Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5