FSA boss Margaret Cole quits
Financial Services Authority managing director and board member Margaret Cole will leave the organisation later this year after seven years to seek "a fresh challenge".
Cole will remain in her current role and on the FSA board until the end of March, prior to the creation of twin peaks within the FSA on 2 April.
She will then be on gardening leave until 31 August but
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