FCA move follows longstanding pressure against new public interest test for announcing investigations

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The UK’s financial watchdog has bowed to longstanding pressure and ditched a plan to frequently “name and shame” companies it is investigating.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has dropped the plan to apply a new public interest test for announcing investigations into regulated firms “given the lack of consensus” over the plans.