Victoria is a Head of Department at the FCA, with overall responsibility for supervising crypto asset firms, and hybrid crypto and payments firms active within the UK. She oversees c.40 of the FCA’s specialist colleagues, with specific responsibilities for financial crime risk, compliance with Money Laundering Regulations (including the Travel Rule), financial promotions rules and teams that address Serious Organised Crime and Fraud arising in the sector.

Victoria’s teams are also instrumental in design and delivery of the future UK regulatory regime, supporting Policy teams to ensure future regulation can be implemented by firms (and supervised by the FCA).

Victoria has been specialising in Digital Asset Regulation since January 2020, but has been at the FCA since November 2009, holding a variety of supervisory, policy and leadership roles at the regulator across retail and wholesale sectors.