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Financial Conduct Authority

Regulating financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, https://www.fca.org.uk/careers

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.

 

The Wholesale and Perimeter team is one of two teams in the Funds & Wholesale Department of the Regulatory and Corporate Legal Directorate, Legal Division. The team advises on the regulatory perimeter, cryptoassets, wholesale firm supervision and wholesale conduct issues, benchmarks, ESG matters including the sustainable disclosures regime, operational resilience, the critical third parties regime, and the senior managers and certification regime.

 

What you will be doing?

  • Advising on the regulation of benchmarks and benchmark administrators, in particular working with the FCA’s Benchmark Policy and Supervision Teams in reviewing the Benchmarks Regulation and passing the requirements of the Benchmarks Regulation over into the FCA’s Handbook of rules and guidance
  • Advising on the regulatory perimeter
  • Providing legal support in respect of the supervision of wholesale firms supervised by the FCA, including investment banks, wholesale intermediaries, asset managers, benchmark administrators and commodity firms
  • Advising FCA Policy and Supervision on the senior managers and certification regime

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 Location

London, Leeds, Edinburgh

 Contract type

Full time, Permanent

 Profession

Lawyer

 Working pattern

Flexible working, Hybrid

 Closing Date

28/01/2025