The Financial Conduct Authority’s London-based employees have been asked to return to the regulator’s London office for at least one day a week from mid-Autumn.

Bosses at the UK’s markets watchdog told its roughly 4,200 employees that staff employed in its office in Stratford, East London were expected to work from there “for at least 20% of your working time, each month” from November, according to an all-staff memo dated 31 August and seen by Financial News.