LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Britain's former top financialindustry regulator Hector Sants, who resigned from Barclays in November citing stress and exhaustion, will lead anew financial taskforce set up by the head of the AnglicanChurch.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said on Thursdaythat Sants had accepted his invitation to chair the group, wherehe will support credit unions and work with the wider UKfinancial sector to build support for community-based financialservices.
"I have long recognised that the banking sector requirescultural change," Sants, 57, said in a statement.