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'Big Four' accountants given October deadline to outline UK audit split plan

By Fiona Maxwell
  • 06 Jul 2020 05:48
  • 06 Jul 2020 05:48
The "Big Four" accounting firms have been told by the UK's sector watchdog to outline plans to separate their audit divisions from their other activities by October this year.
The Financial Reporting Council instructed the UK arms of the four firms to submit implementation plans for their operational separation by

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Fiona Maxwell

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Fiona Maxwell is a financial services senior correspondent at MLex in London. She began her career as a reporter for Risk.net, writing about EU post-crisis regulation, and later worked for POLITICO in Brussels, covering the intersect between financial policy and politics. Prior to joining MLex, Fiona worked at the Bank of England as a policy adviser in the prudential policy directorate.

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