The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority has scaled back its proposed mortgage-lending regulations. In its business plan for 2012, the FSA has acknowledged that it was easing off a proposal requiring banks to assess whether borrowers were able to repay a mortgage over 25 years, saying it “may not be appropriate,” and that it recognizes “the need not to take a ‘one size fits all’ approach.”

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