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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

FCA’s first deputy CEO calls for stronger grip on vital tech firms

Sarah Pritchard.
Pritchard made the comments after financial firms were disrupted by an Amazon cloud outage last month. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

The City watchdog has said the UK needs to “strengthen” its grip on foreign tech firms providing critical services to banks, amid growing concerns over outages and cyber-attacks.

Sarah Pritchard, who was appointed the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) first deputy chief executive this summer, said there had been “very frequent reminders” of how important it was for the banking sector to have “good, strong operational resilience and cyber controls”.

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