The Bank's Financial Policy Committee held its first meeting in June 2011 as a macro prudential regulator to oversee regulation of the UK's financial sector.

In other countries banking supervision is carried out by a government department such as the UK Treasury, or an independent government agency ( for example, UK's Financial Services Authority ).

Financial regulators, such as the UK's Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) or the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), oversee the capital markets in their designated jurisdictions to ensure that investors are protected against fraud, among other duties.

The Financial Times reported that Ben Bradshaw, UK's health minister, welcomed the launch.

In January 2010, Adair Turner, Chairman of the UK's Financial Services Authority, said that marking to market had been a cause of inflated bankers ' bonuses.

The UK's Financial Times Magazine of 13 January 2007 reported that there might be no more than 15 – 20 years remaining for the industry in Ecuador, due to the competition of paper-based Chinese-made imitations, especially as a few hat sellers dominate and manipulate the market.

For example, it has been reported that Australia's Commonwealth Bank is measured as having 7. 6 % Tier 1 capital under the rules of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, but this would be measured as 10. 1 % if the bank was under the jurisdiction of the UK's Financial Services Authority.

* The Financial Reporting Council ( FRC ) is the UK's independent regulator for corporate reporting and governance.

She then moved to become Chairman of the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service.

* ACCA is one of two professional bodies ( Another is the charterholders of Chartered Financial Analyst ( CFA )) whose members are recognized by UK's Securities & Investment Institute ( SII ) as equivalent to full SII membership ( MSI ).

The three-way merger in 2000 represented the ambition of all three firms of becoming an international law firm, and was described by the UK's Financial Times as " probably the most significant pan-European merger to date in the restructuring of Europe ’ s legal services.

The UK's Financial Services Authority ( FSA ), which levied a fine of £ 59. 5 million ( US $ 92. 7 million ), gave Barclays the biggest fine it had ever imposed in its history.

* UK's Critics ' Circle 2011 Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts, March 2012, for " what is effectively a lifetime achievement award ", as Mark Shenton ( Drama section chairman ) commented.

National Air Traffic Services, the UK's Air Navigation Service Provider, a public – private partnership also publishes an online AIP for the UK.

The organisation was originally setup as the National Air Traffic Control Services ( NATCS ) in 1962, bringing together responsibility for the UK's existing military and civil Air Traffic Control services.

The UK's Unsolicited Goods and Services Act ( 1971, as amended ) states ... a person who ... receives unsolicited goods, may ... use, deal with or dispose of them as if they were an unconditional gift to him, and any right of the sender to the goods shall be extinguished.

However, as of July 2009, the Aeronautical Information Publication published by the UK's air navigation service provider, National Air Traffic Services, still shows Londonderry / Eglinton.

The UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ( Services Directive implementation team ), working with marketing consultants, created the EUGO brand for use on point-of-single-contact portals across Europe.

EDC Blackburn was the UK's largest CD manufacturer, and was located between Whitebirk and Little Harwood ; the company, formerly Deluxe Global Media Services, was acquired by Entertainment Distribution Company in 2006 and closed three years later when production was moved to Germany.

Claims about the drink's effects and performance have been challenged on various occasions, with the UK's Advertising Standards Authority imposing advertising restrictions in 2001 in response to complaints first recorded as early as 1997.

The by-election was caused by the resignation and elevation to the House of Lords of the sitting MP, John Boyd-Carpenter, on his appointment as head of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) by the Prime Minister at the time, Edward Heath.

* David Davies, famed chief test pilot of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority and author of classic book Handling the Big Jets ;

It was never subject to the authority of the BCI ( nor, much to its annoyance at the time, the UK's Radio Authority ), and was operated under RTÉ's remit as a joint venture between RTÉ and CLT-UFA.

On its formation in 1954, the Authority was responsible for the UK's entire nuclear program, both civil and defence, as well as the policing of nuclear sites.

The Atomic Energy Authority ( Weapons Group ) Act 1973 transferred responsibility for management of the UK's nuclear deterrent, including the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, directly to the Ministry of Defence.

Following the Energy Act 2004, on 1 April 2005 the UK's specialist nuclear police force, the UK Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary, was reconstituted as the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.

In September 2003, Greenstock was appointed the UK's Special Representative for Iraq, where he worked alongside Paul Bremer within the Coalition Provisional Authority.

The ownership of Nirex was transferred from the nuclear industry to the UK Government departments DEFRA and DTI in April 2005, and then to the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ( NDA ) in November 2006.

The reason for this was that there was no provision in the original 1946 Bermuda agreement that would have allowed British Caledonian ( BCal ), then the UK's foremost wholly privately owned, independent international scheduled airline, to use the licences the UK Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) had awarded it in 1972 to begin daily scheduled services from its London Gatwick base to Houston and Atlanta.

Originally designed to be a contractor for the UK's new ITV, the company failed to win a contract when the Independent Television Authority felt that doing so would give too much control in the entertainment business to the Grade family's companies ( which included large talent agencies and theatre interests ) although the ITA said that ITPC were free to make their own programmes which they could sell to the new network companies.

The commercial for the fragrance found controversy in the U. K. with UK's Advertising Standards Authority.

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority commented on the ban decision stating " We considered that Beyoncé's body movements and the camera's prolonged focus on shots of her dress slipping away to partially expose her breasts created a sexually provocative ad that was unsuitable to be seen by young children.

In Britain, the survey results stated that those who view the UK's membership of the EU negatively (" a bad thing ") and those who view it as neither positive nor negative (" neither good nor bad ") each constitute 32 % of the population.

In February 2012 the UK's first Green-controlled council ( Brighton and Hove ) caused controversy when they stated their intention to raise the rent for a standard 250 m < sup > 2 </ sup > plot to £ 110 per year with many people suggesting that this was contrary to the environmental agenda on which they were elected.

The species is a rare visitor to the UK and Ben Aviss of the BBC stated that the news could mean the UK's first Great Egret colony is established.

The press has carried vocal criticisms of the present extradition arrangements from the UK's business community, some of whom stated that they were avoiding doing business with or in the U. S. because of legal concerns such as the extradition treaty, among other concerns.

This issue has wider political significance since housing associations borrowing ( which stood at approximately £ 30bn in 2006 ) does not currently contribute to the UK's public sector borrowing requirement, the control of which is both a stated government objective and part of the EU's criteria for membership of the European single currency.

In an interview on the UK's Mrs. Merton chat show in 1997, Duffy stated that he and Dallas co-star Larry Hagman were planning a third Dallas TV movie, but this project failed to materialize.

In interviews with the Glasgow's Daily Record in September 2010 and the UK's The Independent in October 2010, McGee stated he had lost interest in music and was more interested in the esoteric and occult teachings of Aleister Crowley and Peter J Carroll.

The next day, during the opening presentations, Macmillan outlined the UK's contributions to the development of the nuclear bomb, and stated in no uncertain terms that the UK would continue to maintain an independent nuclear force, no matter what the US did to try to stop them.

At the time, Jeff Walker stated in an interview with the UK's Metal Hammer Magazine that the album was taking more of a classic rock approach, with drums, bass and twin guitars à la Thin Lizzy, in comparison to earlier " multi-layered guitar " productions.

While some teens in the UK embraced the message of abstinence, some critics rejected and ridiculed SRT, claiming it was anti-sex or unrealistic, and have stated that it seems unlikely that abstinence programs will attract widespread support in the UK because of the UK's different attitude about sexuality and sex education, but the group's Assistant National Director for the UK, Denise Pfeiffer, says there is a real need for such a movement in the UK to curb what she sees as the ever-increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies, both of which she claims are the highest in Western Europe.

The manufacturers also stated pointedly that the UK's recently introduced blanket 70 mph ( 113 km / h ) speed limit would make the extra speed of the new car superfluous on the domestic market.

The UK's Food Standards Agency ( FSA ) stated that " the Agency ’ s independent scientific experts have advised that, although there are very limited data available, it would be prudent to assume that it could be a genotoxic carcinogen ".

He stated in interviews with the UK's Power Slam Magazine that he had no objection to joining TNA-although he suspected it would not happen due to the presence of Sting on their roster.

The modern Golowan festival in Penzance started in 1990 as an attempt to revive many of the traditions stated above and has grown into one of the UK's most distinctive festivals.

In March 1994, an article by Dave Simpson of Melody Maker, charting the aspirations of " the UK's brightest hopes ", stated that ; "... Shed Seven's beautifully posed, epic music is different.