Sectors
Working within our supervisory areas you will most often deal with firms which cover a number of sectors, however we don’t expect you to know everything about everything. We are recruiting people with a variety of backgrounds however if you have experience within financial services you will be asked to select your preferred sector.
Within Enforcement you will be working on cases in either the Retail or Wholesale sectors depending on your team.
RETAIL SECTORS
Insurance
We supervise:
- Life insurance companies
- General insurance companies
- Friendly societies
- Related fund management and advisory operations
Banking & Mortgages
We supervise:
- All retail banks
- UK building societies
- E-money issuers
- Mortgage lenders
- Mortgage brokers
- General insurance brokers
- Stockbrokers
- Spread betting firms
- Clearing
- Retail bank investment banking and fund management
- Retail bank insurance
Asset Managers & Advisers
We supervise:
- Fund managers
- Private client stockbrokers
- IFAs
- Mortgage brokers
- General insurers
- Alternative investment strategies
WHOLESALE SECTORS
Investment Banks
We supervise major US & European investment banks which have significant presence in the UK
- Equity markets
- Debt markets
- Derivative markets
- Advisory markets
Banks & Investment Firms
We supervise:
- International Banks
- Standard Chartered Banks
- Regional Insurance Brokers
- Large Hedge fund firms
- Private Equity Firms
- Wholesale Asset Managers
- Wholesale Small Firms
Insurance
We supervise:
- General Insurance Intermediaries
- Commercial Insurers
- London Insurance and Reinsurance market (including Lloyds of London)