FCA adds six directors to leadership team

500 new FCA staff this year

Jenna Brown
clock • 2 min read

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed six directors to its leadership team as it continues to expand its headcount.

The regulator said it would have added more than 500 new staff members between January the end of July this year. The director appointments fill a mix of new and existing roles and come from both internal and external candidates. Roma Pearson has been appointed as the FCA's director of consumer finance, responsible for the supervision and policy development in the consumer lending and mortgages sectors. Pearson has been at the FCA and its predecessors since 1996, most recently as a head of department in the risk and compliance oversight division. Camille Blackburn will join the FCA...

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