Julia Hoggett became the Director of Market Oversight at the FCA in April 2017 having joined the FCA in May 2014. As Director of Market Oversight, Julia is responsible for overseeing the conduct of participants in the primary and secondary markets through the listing, prospectus and market abuse regimes. The mission of the Division is to promote conduct that supports trusted, orderly and efficient primary and secondary markets in the UK which work in the interests of all participants and stakeholders. The Directorate is made up of three Departments: The Listing Transactions Department which maintains the UK’s Official List and reviews and approves issuer documentation in relation to key primary markets transactions; the Primary Market Oversight Department which focuses on on-going issuer disclosure and sponsor conduct in the primary market; and the Secondary Market Oversight department which focuses on conduct in the secondary market.

Julia joined the Financial Conduct Authority as Head of the Wholesale Banking Supervision Department. In that capacity, she was responsible for the Department which supervises the conduct of some 1,300 firms and groups with active wholesale banking operations in the UK. Julia was named one of Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in Europe’s Financial Markets in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Julia was also named on the OUTstanding top 50 list in 2013 and in its successor the top 100 list in 2014. Julia also sits on the FCA’s Executive Diversity Committee as its Gender Champion.

Alex is a partner in the Simmons & Simmons financial services regulation practice in London. Alex specialises in a range of UK and EU regulatory matters, including advising financial institutions on LIBOR, Brexit, SMCR, ESG and MAR. After qualifying in 2000 and practising at a magic circle firm, Alex spent many years in-house at major banks before going back into private practice at Simmons & Simmons in 2017. He has advised on contentious and non-contentious MAR issues both from an in-house and private practice perspective, including market soundings in practice and the the procedures that sit around them. Alex advises extensively on market abuse issues and regularly provides training to a range of clients.

Mark Bicknell is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at Bank of America in London, providing legal and general counsel to the banking, corporate finance, corporate broking and capital markets teams, primarily in relation to equity, equity-linked and certain debt and other investment banking transactions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, running regulatory change projects for the Firm in the UK and EEA, and managing the EMEA ECM counsel team.

Before moving to BofA, Mark was at Merrill Lynch which he joined in 2004 from Linklaters where he had been an English corporate and capital markets lawyer and managing associate in Linklaters’ London and Singapore offices.

Mark was awarded an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge; and honours in the Law Society's Common Professional Law Exams and Finals at the College of Law, York.

David Churton is the Global Head of Monitoring for Compliance and GFC at Morgan Stanley. Previously the EMEA Head of Compliance, David has held various capital markets related roles at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. David is a qualified barrister.

Mark Compton is the Head of EMEA Markets and Treasury Compliance at the Bank of New York Mellon managing both the Compliance Advisory and Market Surveillance Teams.

Before joining the Bank of New York Mellon in September 2017, Mark Compton was a Partner in the London office of Mayer Brown LLP in the Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice for about 6 years.   At Mayer Brown Mark advised a wide range of regulated financial services firms, such as global investment banks, broker dealers, insurers and funds, on UK and EU financial services regulation and on financial crime regulation.  Mark also advised corporates in extraction, energy, engineering, pharma and entertainment on financial crime compliance and corporate ethics.

Prior to that Mark worked for BP plc for over six years as the senior financial services and regulatory lawyer to their global financial services and commodity trading division.  Mark also spent over five years at the FSA where he worked in the Enforcement Division on market abuse and Listing Rule breaches and in the General Counsel’s Division drafting and negotiating EU financial services Directives and advising on wholesale banking, regulated markets and the Listing Rules.

Before that, Mark trained and practiced general commercial litigation at Slaughter and May.

Jamie is a capital markets partner at Simmons & Simmons and is based in London. Over his career, Jamie has advised issuers and investment banks on the full range of ECM transactions, including IPOs for commercial companies, investment funds and SPACs, demergers, secondary issues, shareholder sell-downs, and pre-IPO private placements. He has also advised on various UK Listing Rule transactions, including reverse takeovers, class transactions, related party transactions, share buy-backs, and transfers of listing segment.

Matthew Coupe is Director, Market Structure for the European Markets business at Barclays, based in London. He advises the Markets division on future market structure, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of market structure, and engages with politicians, trade associations, regulatory bodies and clients to make sure this is articulated effectively, assists in building Barclay's commercial response to these changes. Further to this he develops explanatory and thought leadership pieces around Market Structure.

He chairs the British Bankers Association MiFID Steering Committee, and also co-chairs the Fix Trading Community for the EMEA region. A regulatory specialist, he is an expert in high-frequency trading and market surveillance in the post-MiFID landscape and their implications for trading desks and compliance departments.

Matthew graduated from De Montfort University with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies, majoring in Financial Statistics.

Having previously worked as a debt capital markets transaction lawyer, Ruari has been with the ICMA since 2007. His primary focus is on the primary debt markets, where he oversees the representation of ICMA’s underwriter constituency. Supporting the ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee, Legal and Documentation Committee and related working groups, he facilitates discussions among and within ICMA members and liaises on their behalf with other market constituencies and national and international authorities. Ruari is ultimately responsible for administering the ICMA Primary Market Handbook, which sets out recommendations, guidance and standard wording and documentation for syndicated cross-border debt securities issuance. Ruari is also on the also on the Editorial Board of the Capital Markets Law Journal.

Fleur Eysenck is Legal Counsel in Barclays' Litigation, Investigations and Enforcement team, working on a range of internal investigations, including investigations into individual misconduct and breaches of the Conduct Rules. After five years at the criminal bar, Fleur joined the Enforcement division of the Financial Conduct Authority, investigating and prosecuting criminal offences affecting the financial markets, and bringing a range of regulatory misconduct matters to the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal, before joining Barclays in 2017. Fleur has also acted as a professional member of the Bar Standards Board's Professional Conduct Committee reviewing professional misconduct matters involving barristers.

Andrew George QC of Blackstone Chambers is a top ranked Commercial and Financial Services silk. He acts in a substantial number of the most serious regulatory investigations, including those arising out of the collapse of Carillion, the global money laundering and sanctions investigations against Standard Chartered Bank, and the first cases to be decided under FCA partial settlement procedures.

He has over 20-years' experience in financial services and City regulation acting both for and against the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) including in hearings before its Regulatory Disciplinary Committee (RDC). He has also acted for and against the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in disciplinary cases involving accountants and actuaries and in proceedings brought by the Takeover Panel.

Andrew appeared in the first ever RDC hearing, the first hearing in the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal, and the first market abuse trial to be heard by that Tribunal. He also appeared in the first Tribunal hearing before the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Tribunal, the first substantive hearing before the Dubai Financial Markets Tribunal and the first contested hearing before the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee (EDMC).

Andrew has successfully defended cases before the RDC relating to alleged senior management negligence, benchmark (LIBOR) manipulation, insider dealing and retail misconduct in selling and advising.

Both independent legal directories, Chambers and Partners UK 2020 and Legal 500 UK 2019 commend Andrew’s financial service expertise.

Angela is a partner in TLT's financial services team in London focusing on investigations, enforcement defence and regulatory advice.  Angela has more than 20 years experience in this field.
Before joining TLT, Angela spent 12 years as a partner in leading US law firms.  Angela has led many major regulatory investigation and defence projects, including coordinating cross-border multi-jurisdictional matters, involving the FCA, SFO, DOJ, SEC, NY DFS and other regulators in Europe and around the globe.
Angela's clients include banks, brokers, insurers, investment funds, asset managers and senior individuals within regulated institutions.  Angela brings to our team particular expertise in market abuse investigations and regarding the asset management sector.
Angela is a member of the City of London Law Society Regulatory Law Committee.

Katy is the Head of Regulatory Policy for LME Group. She manages the LME Group's response and engagement with regulatory developments with a focus on domestic, European and international financial services legislation. Katy is currently leading the LME's review of issues of market conduct and compliance in the metals market. This has included chairing a working group on the topic and drafting a discussion paper for publication later in the year. Katy has also been leading the LME Group's Brexit contingency programme, successfully ensuring that LME Group is able to provide continued member access following the end of the transition period.

Katy plays an instrumental role in representing the views of the LME Group, its members and the wider metals market in the development of incoming regulation through her engagement with regulators, legislators and policymakers. She works closely with key stakeholders within the LME business in clarifying the scope, and managing the implementation, of incoming regulatory change.

Prior to joining the LME, Katy was at Travers Smith for 8 years, where she was a senior associate in the Financial Services and Markets Department advising a wide client base on the full spectrum of regulatory and perimeter matters. Katy focused in particular on the fund management sector and latterly on the introduction and implementation of the AIFMD.

Cuthbert Kendall is a Director within the Banking Legal team at Barclays Investment Bank and head of the Equity Capital Markets Legal team. Cuthbert has been at Barclays since 2007 and has worked across an extensive range of debt and equity capital markets transactions. Cuthbert also oversees regulatory implementation within the Banking Legal team at Barclays and led their implementation of MIFID II across Banking. He has also been heavily involved with the ICMA and AFME working groups covering MIFID, MAR and the Prospectus Regulation. Prior to Barclays, Cuthbert worked at Allen & Overy as an associate in their international capital markets department.

Greg Leonard heads Cornerstone Research’s European finance practice. Dr. Leonard has nearly two decades of experience consulting for clients in complex litigation and regulatory proceedings. On behalf of clients, he has led regulatory investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, managing teams and simultaneously supporting experts across multiple related matters. Dr. Leonard has substantial experience directing analyses of large and complex high-frequency financial data sets, from both private entities and trading exchanges.

Dr. Leonard’s expertise includes high-profile matters at the intersection of finance and competition. He has evaluated a range of alleged anticompetitive activities in financial and commodities markets, including collusive conduct by various market participants, at both the class certification and merits stages.

Market manipulation
An expert on market manipulation, Dr. Leonard addresses issues that include allegations of benchmark manipulation, banging the close and other manipulation of settlement indices, misreporting of trade information, front-running client orders, trading to trigger stop-loss orders, spoofing and disruptive trading, wash trading, and inappropriate sharing of proprietary information.

Ian Mason has more than 20 years' experience as a financial services regulatory lawyer providing advice on a broad range of matters, including FCA/PRA authorisation, supervision and enforcement. He is a former Head of Department in the Enforcement Division at the financial services regulator, as well as having worked in-house, and advising firms and individuals in private practice. He advises on a broad range of financial services regulatory issues, both non-contentious and contentious. He has significant experience in regulatory investigations, both in enforcement and on the defence side, representing firms and individuals such as CEOs, Heads of Compliance, MLROs and Heads of Trading. Ian's financial crime experience includes conducting AML and market abuse investigations at the FSA/FCA, and in private practice he has represented firms and individuals (including senior management and MLROs) in FCA financial crime investigations, as well as providing general AML compliance advice.

Catherine Dias is Senior Technical Advisor in the International Expertise Unit of the Investigation and Inspection Directorate of the AMF, France where she works on European and international regulatory matters including market abuse, cooperation and information exchange between financial market regulators. She has worked on market abuse matters both internally and externally notably in the context of ESMA's work on the implementing texts of the EU regulation. Catherine participates in a number of other ESMA and IOSCO committees and working groups.

Prior to joining the Investigation and Inspection Division, Catherine worked in the Regulatory and International Affairs Division where she worked first in the International Affairs department and subsequently in the Markets, Intermediaries and Post-trade department. She has worked at the AMF for 15 years.

She began her career in the International Division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (now part of JP Morgan Chase); during that time she worked in New York, Luxembourg and Paris. She then joined the Operations and Banking Services Division of the Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole (now Crédit Agricole SA). In 1993, she moved to the Global Securities Services Division of Citigroup and was posted in Lisbon before returning to Paris in 2003.

Alexander McDonald has been CEO of Wholesale Market Brokers Association (“WMBA”) and the London Energy Brokers Association (“LEBA”) since 2009. The trade association promotes and enhances the value and competitiveness of wholesale markets trading venues, platforms and arranging intermediaries. It provides members with co-ordination and a common voice to foster and promote liquid, transparent and fair markets. As a highly respected focal point for the industry, WMBA/LEBA deliver a clear and certain channel of communication with central banks, governments, policy makers and regulators.

WMBA/LEBA member firms are global and wholesale venues and intermediaries, providing services and arranging transactions in the cash and derivative Rate, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Equity and Commodity marketplaces [see notes[i] for details]. He currently also holds a CF50 permission as Benchmarks Administrator to two Specified Indices in the UK, SONIA and RONIA. 

Prior to joining WMBA, Alex has spent his career as Managing Director in the Treasury and Trading divisions of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, before moving into Fund Management where he worked for Bluecrest, Olea and BSAM as either Portfolio Manager or Principle. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Geophysics/Geochemistry. [see notes[ii] for details].

He has over twenty years of experience as a market maker, franchise leader, macro trader and portfolio manager, focusing on risk in commodities, fixed-income and currencies worldwide. Additionally, he was a Director, in charge of Emerging Markets and currency trading at CSFB for eight years, and prior to that he was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs on their fixed-income proprietary trading desk. He joined JP Morgan in 1988 and subsequently traded with and managed their futures, fixed income arbitrage and FX teams.

Over his career in the Market Division of Consob, the Italian securities regulator, he has been involved in activities related to the detection and investigation of market abuse cases. Since 1998, he has been dealing with regulatory issues on market abuse and on the related duties for market participants while representing CONSOB at several working groups. Currently he is member of the ESMA Market Integrity Standing Committee.
In 2001 and in 2012 he represented Italy at the Council for the reshaping of the EU regulation on market abuse (MAD and MAR). He participated in several twinning projects between CONSOB and national authorities of eastern European countries.
He graduated at LUISS University and gained a PhD in economics at Bocconi University. He is an invited lecturer in financial regulation and market microstructure courses. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Compliance.

Oliver specialises in regulatory enforcement, internal investigations and related litigation with a particular focus on market misconduct. He has extensive experience advising clients on the UK market abuse framework, as well as conducting internal investigations and representing clients subject to enforcement relating to market abuse. Oliver has a particular interest in market manipulation and spoofing. Between September 2014 and May 2015, Oliver was seconded to the Enforcement and Markets Oversight Division of the FCA where he was part of the FCA's enforcement action in FCA v Da Vinci Invest and Others which remains the leading UK authority relating to spoofing and algorithmic trading.

Martin joined FMSB as its Chief Executive Officer on 1 November 2019, joining from LCH Ltd where he was the CEO. 
 
Martin was appointed as CEO for LCH Ltd in 2015 and during his time there was responsible for its global operations in Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Bangalore and New York as well as in London, and for its relationships with 42 international financial services regulators and central banks, including the Bank of England as lead regulator.   During his tenure, LCH enjoyed a period of record growth in revenues and margins and delivered a significant programme of improvement in the resilience and stability of its critical operations. 
 
Prior to his appointment as CEO of LCH Ltd, Martin was Chief Operating Officer of LCH, responsible for the day to day running and governance of the CCP. He chaired the Management Committee and led a number of key strategic initiatives, including the programme to integrate CCP with the London Stock Exchange Group post acquisition of a majority shareholding and all liaison with the Bank of England Market Supervisory team.  
 
He has also held the positions of Group Head of Regulatory Change for LCH Clearnet Group and Chief Operating Officer for ForexClear, after holding various technology management positions in the LCH group of companies between 2009 and 2015.    
 
From 1995-2009 Martin was at PA Consulting Group in their financial services practice in a variety of positions including latterly as Partner.

Louise leads AFME's Compliance Committee and manages several wholesale markets focused working groups that support AFME members in various compliance led regulatory matters. They include; Markets Compliance, Surveillance, MiFID II, MAR, Short selling, Brexit preparations, Outsourcing, Conduct and Culture, Governance and other areas of regulatory change. Louise is also responsible for engagement with European regulators and supervisors.

Previously Louise worked in the Markets Policy Division at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she worked on projects such as MiFID II implementation, and provided policy support to the Markets Practitioner and Listing Authority Advisory panels. Louise has also worked in legal and regulatory policy roles at the Electoral Commission, the Crown Prosecution Service and Ofcom.

Ryan Taylor is the Global Head of Compliance and a Partner of Brevan Howard, where he has worked since 2011. 

Prior to joining Brevan Howard, Ryan was a director in the compliance department at Barclays Capital between 2002-2011, during which he had compliance responsibility for a number of different offices and business areas. Ryan started his career on the graduate program of the Bank of England; his role later moved to the FSA when banking supervision was transferred to that organisation. During his time at the FSA his remit moved from the banking supervision policy team to the Markets and Exchanges Division, where he was part of the team that implemented the original UK market abuse regime. Ryan was also seconded from the FSA to the Takeover Panel to seek to ensure that the new market abuse regime would operate appropriately in conjunction with the existing Takeover Code. 

Ryan is also a member of the AIMA Council, the AIMA/MFA Global Steering Group and is the Chairman of AIMA’s Government Affairs Committee.

Julia von Buttlar is managing complex administrative offence proceedings at BaFin’s Directorate for Securities Supervision.

Her practice includes all aspects of financial markets related delinquency and achieving better compliance. She provides legal advice and regulatory policy guidance as enforcement specialist not only in national, but also in European and international fora. Based on fundamental right and ethical principals, she developed key requirements that AI systems should meet in order to be trustworthy and to avoid sanction risks.

Admitted to the German and New York Bar as attorney-at-law in 2001 she spent her early career as an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s Frankfurt office. She holds a doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt. She is a demanded public speaker on the subject of enforcement and compliance. In addition, she is a lecturer at the EBS Law School (Wiesbaden).Over the years, she added numerous profound publications in the field of Financial Markets Regulation, lately mostly with relevance to Legal Tech and FinTech. She is editor of the new NJW Zeitschrift Recht Digital (RdI), among others responsible for FinTech/InsurTech. She is nominated as European Women of Legal Tech 2020 ( https://womenoflegaltech.eu/nominee/julia-von-buttlar/ ).