Tom Spender
Director of Retail and Regulatory Investigations, FCA
Tom Spender was appointed the Director of Director of Retail and Regulatory Investigations at the Financial Conduct Authority in October 2014. Prior to this, Tom was a Head of Large Complex Retail Groups in the FCA Supervision department. In this role he was responsible for the conduct supervision of four of the largest retail groups headquartered in the UK. Tom joined the FSA in 2002 and has held senior Enforcement and Supervision roles at the FSA and then the FCA. He has led enforcement investigations across the full spectrum of regulatory activity including insider dealing, financial crime and retail mis-selling. Tom is a qualified solicitor and has worked in international law firms in Australia and in London.