It is no surprise that the pandemic has nudged, encouraged and, to be fair, forced quite a few people to rethink their retirement plans.

FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi will have given recent critics of the regulator much of what they have demanded in his high profile Business Plan launched this week to much coverage.

The speech on transforming to a forward-looking, proactive regulator, delivered by Financial Conduct Authority chief executive Nikhil Rathi at the launch of the FCA’s 2021-22 Business Plan this morning:

Over the next 18 months Financial Planners can expect to see a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that looks and feels different, according to the regulator’s chief executive Nikhil Rathi.