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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.