Financial Promotions (Crypto) Technical Specialist

Requirements of the role

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

This role is within the Financial Promotions & Enforcement Taskforce (FPET), which is a department that straddles the FCA’s regulatory perimeter. The department has a wide remit covering both authorised and unauthorised activities in all sectors.

FPET’s overarching role is to reduce harm arising from unauthorised activity, scams, fraud and breaches of the Financial Promotions Order by unauthorised entities. Prevent scams and high-risk, non-standard investments where authorised firms are involved in the production and distribution of products. While monitoring unregulated activity conducted by authorised firms that has the potential to cause significant customer harm and financial loss.

What will you be doing?

Working collaboratively with management and teams across FPET to advise on industry and policy developments, as well as cases related to crypto asset financial promotions across authorised and unauthorised firms. This may include individual firm cases, multi-firm projects, ad-hoc queries, and industry initiatives

Provide leadership to the Perimeter Team’s crypto asset project team on cases related to unauthorised firms

Lead Financial Promotions & Enforcement Taskforce engagement with other department on matters related to crypto asset financial promotions and the regulatory perimeter, particularly crypto asset supervision, authorisations and policy

Provide technical expertise and input into the development of the future crypto asset regulatory regime, particularly around the regulatory perimeter

Providing deep subject matter expertise on topics and issues relating to crypto assets, financial promotions and the regulatory perimeter 

Create and build relationships with a diverse range of external stakeholders in this field including representing the department in cross-FCA or industry forums 

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