The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to streamline its legal work with the creation of a single legal function headed by current general counsel Stephen Braviner-Roman.
It said this would bring together the general counsel division and the legal group, which currently sits within enforcement and market oversight, in a "single unified legal division to ensure a joined up legal capability working across the organisation". The consolidation was made at the same time the regulator announced there would be two replacements for exiting director of enforcement and market oversite Mark Steward. It said today (23 March) Therese Chambers and Steve Smart would jointly take on the role. Steward, who announced his departure in October last year, had been in the j...
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