📺 House of Lords meeting: Public Office (Accountability) bill (second reading) The meeting took place on Tuesday 1st September. 📽️ You can watch the meeting on Parliament TV catch up here: parliamentlive.tv/event/inde… ✒️ You can also access the Hansard transcript of the meeting here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/…

🗣️ SUPERB SPEECH BY LORD PITT-WATSON Lord Pitt-Watson has been actively participating in the proceedings in the House of Lords about the Financial Services and Markets Bill. On Wednesday 8th July he delivered an impressive speech about the need to protect the Ring-Fencing regime, which is all about the need to mitigate the risk of market instability. TTF wholeheartedly supports the sentiments that Lord Pitt-Watson conveyed and is also grateful for the many speeches that were aligned to his general concerns that the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis are being forgotten, by some. Lord Pitt-Watson’s speech and the debate that followed can be watched here 👇 parliamentlive.tv/event/inde…

TTF Turns Ten: A Good Time to Reflect on our Past and Plan for our Future 🗓️Tuesday 6th May 🕒6pm-7:30pm BST 📍Zoom We’re very pleased to invite you to a special TTF event, all about us turning ten years old!🥳 It’s a great opportunity for us all to reflect on our past, and plan for our future. We’ll be discussing the rollercoaster journey from our first meeting on 6th May 2015 to where we are today, considering the progress we've made, the lessons learned, and the challenges we still face. We will be sharing the principles that have guided our work, and the surprising shifts in thinking that have shaped the TTF's areas of focus and impact; in particular our latest thoughts on the industry and Financial Conduct Authority. This milestone event will also offer a candid discussion on the philosophies of Enlightened Self Interest and how industry motivations have influenced our mission. It will be an opportunity to examine the growth of TTF from a pro-consumer but industry-centric entity to a pro-consumer, consumer-centric movement; and to consider what lies ahead for the next decade. 🔗Click here for full details and to book your place: transparencytaskforce.org/tt…

📺 We have just uploaded the recording of the event we ran on Tuesday, entitled: “The full truth about Lloyds, including the bits the BBC were unable to cover” The speakers were: ●     Ian Tyler, Independent Chair, NED & Senior Advisor ●     Joan Finch, Company Director, Omnia-Klenz Ltd ●     Andrew Candy, Owner, Tentacle ●     Anthony Stansfeld, Former Thames Valley Police & Crime Commissioner ●     Brian Hall, Financial Services Activist Campaigner ●     Paul Carlier, FX, Financial Markets & Banking Consultant ●     Keith Elliott, Retired ●     Trevor Mealham, Project Hague ●     Frances May, Lecturer, BAN & Lloyds Bank Victim Group ●     Stephen Barker, Director, Peterloo Estates Click here to watch the recording 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=DgU8VfSm… If you can please share this video widely within your network/on social media. 🗣️ Andy Agathangelou says: “Without doubt this was one of our most important TTF events ever! Huge thanks to all involved. We’re working on the next steps now.”

ARTICLE: Banks including HSBC fined £100m for 'anti-competitive behaviour' 👇 cityam.com/banks-including-h… @CityAM

IMHO @Moneybox has done an excellent job to report the 'incompetent at best, dishonest at worst' story on @TheFCA. It has reported in a fair and balanced way, not easy given the strength of the evidence against @TheFCA in the report: appgifffs.org/wp-content/upl… This press statement by @appgonifandffs is useful for a quick overview of what this is all about: appgifffs.org/wp-content/upl… And these comments by Parliamentarians shouldn't be ignored by anybody, especially I'd respectfully suggest the members of @CommonsTreasury: appgifffs.org/wp-content/upl… Also, I think the speech by @BobBlackman that he delivered in Parliament on Tuesday also sums it all up very well; and note his concern that @TheFCA may just respond in a defensive way, perhaps trying to infer that 'there's nothing to see here, all our mess has been cleaned up already' when in fact the report makes it crystal clear that the evidence points to ongoing, contemporary 'here and now' issues that show @TheFCA's so-called Transformation Programme has been a failure. appgifffs.org/wp-content/upl… It will be interesting to learn whether those who tune in to @Moneybox just after midday conclude @TheFCA is incompetent and/or dishonest, or whatever they think. The overall purpose of the @appgonifandffs's evidence-gathering exercise was to get the facts about what people think, and its's done that in an honourable way. But if anybody doubts the findings in the report just go to @TheFCA's Trustpilot Reviews, which I believe makes it a matter of 'lots and lots and lots and lots to see here': uk.trustpilot.com/review/fca… @appgonifandffs may run a Q&A on all of this online e.g. on Zoom in the next week or two - use this to let it be known if you would like to attend/contribute to the debate; especially relevant if you have had any dealings with @TheFCA in the last 12 months or so; whether they be good, bad or ugly: appgifffs.org/about-us/conta… Thanks again @Moneybox for raising awareness in a fair and balanced way. Tune in now folks, starts soon!

Many thanks to @FTAdviser and ace reporter @alina_khan2001 for covering this story. In my opinion, this story is basically about @TheFCA not doing its job properly, i.e. not properly acting on actionable intelligence given to it, and consumers being misled as a consequence of it. ftadviser.com/regulation/202… @Carlier_J87

Despite the weather we are currently outside @TheFCA’s headquarters for our “Rally for Better Financial Regulation” following their Annual Public meeting that took place this morning from 10am-12pm. We’ve had speeches from @SueFlood52 Jasthi Alom and Andy Agathangelou. Speeches from Paul Birch, Nigel Cairns and Jasthi Alom to come! We are protesting because @TheFCA is not fit for purpose and needs to be reformed or replaced! #financereform #timeforchange #regulation #finance #regulator #victims #scams #fraud

❗ @TheFCA ONLINE ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING 2024 The meeting is taking place on Thursday 26th September from 10am - 12pm, online. Please sign up to take part in this meeting - you can register to attend here 👇 web.cvent.com/event/cbbb880c… Also, please do take the opportunity to put questions to the FCA, here’s Andy Agathangelou’s questions:

Dear @vincentbrowne, I have just learned about you, through you being mentioned by @yanisvaroufakis in his excellent book amazon.co.uk/Weak-Suffer-Wha… which led me to watch this clip of you rightly demanding an answer from a central banker: youtube.com/watch?v=HAf7J4a_… . The concerns you expressed in that moment sir, go to the heart of why some of us are participating in the March for Justice in Dublin on September 18th, details here: themarchforjusticedublin2024… Thank you for speaking up on behalf of the Irish people at that time. What you said reminds me of superb Robert F. Kennedy quote: “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” I'm pleased to advise that the great film producer/director Terry McMahon is one of the many participants in the 18th September March for Justice in Dublin; and better still, he is speaking about his reasons for participating in the march at an online event happening today, Wednesday 4th, at 5:00PM. Anybody reading this is welcome to attend today's meeting, it's free. If anybody wants the Zoom link for today's meeting please get in touch with me through transparencytaskforce.org/co… Whoever you are, thank you for taking time to read this message; and I'd appreciate any help from anybody who wants to, to kindly share it as far and wide as possible - justice is something worth marching for. Thank you. Andy Agathangelou FRSA - Founder, Transparency Task Force; a Certified Social Enterprise - Chair, Secretariat Committee, APPG on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services - Founder, The International League of Ethical Financial Services Leaders - Founder, The March for Justice - Chair, Violation Tracker UK Advisory Board - Co-Founder, The Woodford Campaign Group - Founder, RSA’s Financial Services Network - Governor, The Pensions Policy Institute - Associate Member, Better Finance