Mark Steward to leave FCA next year

Executive director of enforcement

Mark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority, is set to step down from his role.

Steward, who has worked at the FCA since 2015, will leave the regulator in Spring 2023, with the search for his successor to begin shortly. Stewart has been involved in some of the FCA's most high-profile enforcement cases, such as action against the former Woodford Equity Income fund. He also led the FCA's listing authority and oversight of the UK's publicly traded markets, as well as the FCA's anti-scam marketing campaign ‘Scamsmart'. Before the FCA, Stewart worked at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission as executive director with responsibility for the enforcement divisi...