FCA expands exec team with four female appointments

Restructure at regulator

Jenna Brown
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The regulator has expanded its executive team with four female appointments as part of its shift towards becoming a "data-led" organisation.

Stephanie Cohen, previously at BlackRock for 14 years, will be the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) chief operating officer (COO). Ex-eBay data analytics director Jessica Rusu will join the FCA's as its first chief data, information and intelligence officer. Sarah Pritchard, who joins from the National Economic Crime Centre, will become executive director, markets. And Emily Shepperd will take up the newly created role of executive director, authorisations. Shepperd was most recently director of customer services and change at Aegon UK and before that EMEA COO for Bank of New Yo...

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