Scarborough and Skipton Building Societies: merger confirmation hearing
30th January 2009The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today announced the arrangements for the hearing of the proposed transfer of the engagements of Scarborough Building Society to Skipton Building Society.
The confirmation hearing will be held at the Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HS, on Wednesday 11 February 2009 starting at 11.00 am.
The purpose of such hearings is to give interested parties an opportunity to make oral representations and to enable the FSA to make such inquiry as it considers necessary, both of the societies and of those making oral representations.
Seventeen persons have made written representations to the FSA and two notices of intention to make oral representations have been received. Only those persons who have given the FSA due notice of their intention to do so may make oral representations at the hearing.
There is a presumption that the hearing will be open to the general public and to the media, but the persons making representations and the societies themselves will have the right to ask that all or part of it should not be public. Therefore the hearing will begin in private to give an opportunity for objections to be made to holding the proceedings in public. If the FSA does not uphold any such objection, the public and the media will be admitted before the main proceedings begin.
No photography, video or audio recording will be permitted during the hearing.
At the end of the hearing the FSA will reserve judgement. It will publish a written decision, including its findings on the points made in the written and oral representations, at a later date. A detailed procedural Guidance Note covering the conduct of the hearing has been sent to those who have made representations.
