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John Wightman, Head of Market Analysis and Policy (FCA)
John Wightman is Head of Market Analysis and Policy at the Financial Conduct Authority. His department has delivered a number of key policy initiatives across the Consumer Finance sector, including Strengthening Protections for Borrowers in Financial Difficulty (PS 24/2), and improvements to the FCA’s consumer credit data collection (PS 24/3 and PS 25/3).
He is leading the FCA’s work to bring BNPL into regulation and its collaboration with HM Treasury on Consumer Credit Act reform. Before joining the Financial Conduct Authority in February 2023, John spent ten years at the Financial Ombudsman Service, where he was Head of Practice for Consumer Credit.
Dr Linda Yueh CBE (Author, writer and broadcaster)
Dr Linda Yueh CBE is Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, London Business School. She is an Associate Fellow of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House. Dr Yueh is a Member of the UK Soft Power Council. She was the BBC’s Chief Business Correspondent and Bloomberg TV’s Economics Editor.
Her latest book is The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Crashes and How to Prevent Them, selected as the Best New Economics Books by the Financial Times. Her previous book, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today, was The Times’s Best Business Books of the Year, and Newsweek magazine’s Best Books of the Year.
Liam Halligan is an economist, author and broadcaster - and also has extensive business experience. Since 2003, he has written his multiple award winning weekly “Economics Agenda” column in The Sunday Telegraph – which enjoys a large domestic and international following and has been recognised with a British Press Award, the highest prize in UK print journalism.
He also created and co-presents the Telegraph’s weekly “Planet Normal” podcast – which regularly appears in the Apple news top-10 rankings. Along with his roles at The Telegraph, Liam also writes regularly for The Spectator and The Sun and has featured countless times on flagship BBC shows including regular appearances on Question Time, Any Questions and Today, as well as on Sky News, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and many others. He previously featured three times a week on CNN-Talk – analysing global political and economic news live, for a worldwide television audience.
Earlier in his career, Liam was based in Moscow – where he wrote an influential column in The Moscow Times, while covering Russia and the Former Soviet Union for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit. He was then appointed as Political Correspondent for The Financial Times (based in Parliament) and then spent almost a decade leading the Economics and Business coverage for Channel 4 News.
He has since continued to research, write and present hard-hitting Dispatches documentaries for Channel 4 – and has won the Wincott Business Broadcast Award a record four times, as well being twice recognised as the World Leadership Forum Business Broadcaster of the Year.
Jonathan Phelan has been part of the FCA’s senior leadership team since 2004 when he helped to develop a thematic approach to the supervision of high street firms. After this he was asked to create and lead an enforcement department focused on investigating high street firms. He then led a department responsible for fighting financial crime and became the regulator’s media expert on scams & swindles. Following this he fostered FCA’s relationship with consumer organisations. Jonathan has now returned to frontline supervision and heads up a department focused on consumer credit firms.
Pippa is Political Editor of The Guardian, previously holding the same role at the Daily Mirror where she exposed the Partygate and Barnard Castle scandals. Before that she covered politics at the London Evening Standard.
Pippa has covered Westminster and international politics for more than two decades, reporting on six general elections, seven prime ministers and too many major news stories to mention, from the Iraq war and the financial crash to Brexit and parliamentary scandals. She has trusted contacts right at the heart of government, across Whitehall and in the main opposition parties so has a deep insight into what is going on in British politics and beyond.
She is a multi-award-winning journalist who is currently Journalist of the Year with the London Press Club, the Society of Editors and the British Journalism Awards. She has won accolades including political journalist of the year, scoop of the year, investigation of the year, the Hugh Cudlipp Award and Women In Journalism’s woman of the year.
Szu Ping Chan is the Telegraph’s Economics Editor. She has covered the main events that have shaped the global economy over the past 15 years, from the financial crisis to Europe’s debt crisis and the fallout from the pandemic, interviewing many of the key players along the way.
Andrew is an independent business economist who is now acting as a Senior Adviser to Cambridge Econometrics. Andrew served as a member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from October 2006 until May 2011. From November 2011 until October 2018, Andrew was Senior Economic Adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the UK.
Roma Pearson is the newly appointed Director of Consumer Finance at the Financial Conduct Authority. She has over 25 years’ experience in financial services including eight years in senior leadership positions. She’s been at the forefront of regulatory change for the benefit of consumers in retail markets, particularly across consumer lending and general insurance markets. Supervising firms of all sizes, leading and contributing to significant work programmes influencing outcomes across High Cost Credit, Debt Management, GI pricing and FCA pandemic interventions.
Roma joined the FCA’s predecessor as an Investment Firms Supervisor. She has held various management and leadership positions including the Head of Mortgages & Consumer Lending, Head of Wholesale Authorisations and more recently as the Head of Risk Advisory.
Session: Regulatory Update
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