If the protesters had been able to get into the FIA keynote the following day, they might have been surprised to hear Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commonity Futures Trading Commission, saying something similar about the problems the financial services industry had caused through excessive leverage, as I detail below.

FORBES: FIA - Chicago Convergence of "Occupy" Protesters & Regulator

There are currently a wide range of independent UK regulatory bodies, covering both public services and private industry, which provide functions relating to consumer protection, economic regulation, competition and fair trading policy, professional standards and technical oversight.

BBC: Scotland politics

Graham Grosvenor Barnes , head, Electricity Trading (Scotland), British Energy (Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire) - For services to the Nuclear Industry.

BBC: Famous and not so famous honoured