Uppal and Chawdhary were planning to walk through a series of case studies from their auditingwork, showing different flaws in the security practices of major banks.
Remember the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, convicted in 2002 of obstruction of justice when certain partners destroyed records of the auditingwork they did for Enron as the energy giant was imploding?
The Guardian, whose editor Alan Rushbridger was at the meeting, reported on Wednesday that the editors had not signed up "to seven recommendations that proposed a role for Ofcom or some other statutory body in auditing the work of the regulator".
The Department for Work and Pensions has been auditing its commercial relationships with A4e after receiving an allegation against the company earlier this year.