BBC business journalist Liz Barclay was today named one of three new appointments to the Financial Services Consumer Panel — an independent voice for consumers of financial products — which advises City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority.
Barclay — a broadcast journalist who has been specialising in personal finance for the past two decades — has presented such Radio 4 favourites as You and Yours, and is already on the boards of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and the Equity Release Council Standards Board, as well as being chairwoman of Camden Citizens Advice Bureau.
She is joined by Caroline Barr, a former Treasury executive, and Doug Taylor, leader of Enfield council who has worked as chief advocate of financial services at Which?, the consumer group. The trio will help the FSCP to challenge the City watchdog from consumers’ perspective, and are appointed for three years.
