In earlier posts, I suggested that a super-regulator be in charge of anything involving investor protection.

FORBES: Investor Protection: Super-regulator Needed

FSA, Britain's new financial super-regulator, reprimanded the country's largest life assurer, Prudential , for mismanaging its salesforce.

ECONOMIST: A Japanese boost

If the super-regulator were now in operation, there would be no such impediment.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

He added that the governor had, at one point, been opposed to the idea of the Bank becoming a super-regulator.

BBC: King and Darling clash on banks

Paradoxically, the British financial super-regulator will be expected to resist plans for a single European super-regulator in its own image.

ECONOMIST: Sir Howard Davies is a hard act for Callum McCarthy to follow

But an embryonic plan to create a super-regulator for consumer products, such as mortgages, credit cards and mutual funds, is already encountering stiff opposition.

ECONOMIST: Overhauling financial regulation

The Treasury resisted the temptation to propose a single super-regulator along the lines of Britain's Financial Services Authority, leaving itself open to criticism that turf wars will persist.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

Giulio Tremonti, Italy's finance minister, proposes merging four financial regulators into one super-regulator or, failing that, uniting Consob, the toothless securities-market regulator, the Bank of Italy, the banks' watchdog, and the antitrust authority.

ECONOMIST: Parmalat

Since banking, trading, derivatives and securities are all conducted by the same firms that pose the greatest risk to the system, why not create a super-regulator that consolidates the watchdog roles under one roof?

FORBES: Mary Schapiro's SEC Exit An Opening For Greater Reforms

It comes as regulator Ofcom reveals that less than 1% of UK homes have a super-fast broadband connection.

BBC: BT to trial one gigabit broadband