Treasury appoints Katharine Braddick director general of financial services

Treasury, PRA and FSA background

Tom Ellis
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Katharine Braddick has been appointed the Treasury's new director general of Financial Services.

Promoted from her current role as the Treasury's director for financial services (International and EU), Braddick is now responsible for all issues relating to financial services, financial stability and the financial system at HM Treasury.  Braddick has worked for the Treasury since 2014 and before that held a number of positions in financial services regulation. She was director of prudential policy at the Prudential Regulation Authority between 2012 and 2014 and was the Financial Services Authority's head of prudential banking policy prior to that.  She replaces Charles Roxburgh, who...

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