(Editor’s Note: The post below by Lord Adair Turner is a transcript of his remarks at London’s City Banquet,  on September 22, 2009.) It’s a year and four days since Callum McCarthy spoke here on his second last day as Chairman of the FSA. I know he always received a warm welcome here and I am grateful, Lord Mayor, for your kind words, given that I now seem to be regarded as somewhat of a heretic in certain quarters of the City.  Heretics used to be burned at Smithfield, not far from here, so

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The Momentum For Reform Must Be Maintained