In focus: the FCA’s market abuse regime for crypto
The UK Treasury has committed to introducing legislation for cryptoasset market abuse this year, subject to parliamentary time. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority will then implement a market abuse regime, setting higher expectations for the standard of care and supervision that firms provide to consumers.
Helen Boyd, head of capital markets at the FCA, joined OMFIF to discuss key components of the regime and how they differ from existing regulations. This roundtable explored how the framework will affect the day-to-day operations of UK-based cryptoasset service providers and what steps they should be taking to prepare for these changes.
Speakers
Helen Boyd
Head of Capital Markets
Financial Conduct Authority
Helen Boyd
Head of Capital Markets
Financial Conduct Authority
Helen Boyd is head of capital markets at the Financial Conduct Authority. In this role, she oversees the teams working across the full array of wholesale policy issues relevant to capital markets and the supervision of benchmark administrators and credit rating agencies. She has held various roles as the FCA as part of the capital markets sector team, as technical specialist and manager of the trading conduct and settlement policy team.