By Spencer Anderson LONDON, March 17 (IFR) - UK regulators are turning a blind eye to rules on mobile phone recording introduced more than two years ago after concluding that technology may not yet be widely enough available to implement the requirements, according to technology providers. The Financial Services Authority enacted new rules in 2009 requiring financial institutions to record all "relevant" communications their employees held on mobile phones. However, warnings from the industry that the technology was not advanced enough caused the FSA to postpone introducing the rules until November 2011. Banks approached the FSA in early 2012, arguing that the technology on offer made compliance impossible for many.



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