Senior Trading Policy Associate

Requirements of the role

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.

SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition).

Sitting in the Infrastructure & Exchanges directorate, the MI Trading Venues Department integrates the supervision of key market infrastructure and corporate finance firms with the development of policy frameworks for trading venues, aiming to promote fair, orderly, and transparent markets across a broad range of asset classes and venue types.

Role responsibilities

• Be part of a team delivering the Wholesale Markets Review, a joint initiative with HM Treasury to assess and improve the UK’s wholesale financial markets, while developing in-depth expertise on the wholesale financial markets and their regulation
• Develop policy reforms end to end including by drafting consultation documents and public statements
• Play a key role in shaping policy reforms by working closely with internal and external stakeholders—including our newly formed secondary markets advisory committee, where you and your outputs will have high exposure across FCA
• Identifying and mitigating future areas of risk in the trading and conduct landscape
• Horizon scan the relevant markets to identify issues and risks to our objectives, this includes extracting, analysing and interpreting quantitative information to support policy development
• Provide policy advice which includes drafting policy papers and briefs for internal stakeholders, contributing directly to the delivery of our ambitious objective to improve the UK’s secondary markets
• Providing ongoing policy support to FCA teams supervising trading venues and trading firms

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