FCA names director in charge of supervising advisers

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed four directors to lead key areas of its supervision division, with Nick Poyntz-Wright heading up its long term savings & pensions unit which includes oversight of wealth management services and investment intermediaries.

Poyntz-Wright's official title will be director of long-term savings & pensions, and he is joined by Karina McTeague as director of retail banking; Linda Woodall as director of mortgages & consumer lending; and William Amos as director of wholesale banking & investment management. McTeague, who joins from Lloyds Banking Group, represents the only new hire for the regulator. All four of the new directors will report to Clive Adamson, who remains director of supervision at the FCA. The FCA said the appointments complete the senior structure in supervision, and are the final step in impl...

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