{"id":31171,"date":"2025-06-10T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31171"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:16:58","slug":"u-k-regulator-names-sarah-pritchard-as-deputy-ceo-to-help-oversee-crypto-stablecoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31171","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Regulator Names Sarah Pritchard as Deputy CEO to Help Oversee Crypto, Stablecoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), appointed a deputy chief executive for the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fca.org.uk\/news\/press-releases\/fca-appoints-deputy-chief-executive-manage-growing-remit-support-growth-drive-reform\">naming Sarah Pritchard<\/a> to the role as it looks to bolster its oversight of the crypto and digital assets industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new role has been created to reflect the FCA\u2019s expanding remit, with \u2026 regulation of stablecoin and crypto firms as well as buy now pay later activities,&#8221; the FCA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s regulatory regime trails that of the nearby European Union, which already has a transnational licensing framework in place with its Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulations. The FCA, which currently certifies that companies on its crypto register comply with anti-money laundering rules, is in the process of creating a more comprehensive regime for the sector. It has said it plans to start authorizing crypto firms along the lines of its approach to traditional finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/03\/28\/uk-regulator-intends-to-start-authorizing-crypto-firms-in-2026\">companies by 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard&#8217;s role will include an international element, the FCA said. \u201cThe international environment is complex, our remit is growing and expectations of us continue to evolve,&#8221; Ashley Alder, chair of the FCA, said.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard was previously an executive director of the agency, helping with supervision and policy oversight. The FCA wants to work with the crypto industry to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2023\/04\/25\/uk-fca-wants-to-work-with-the-crypto-industry-to-develop-regulation-executive-says\"> develop regulation for the sector<\/a>, she said last year. Since then, it has circulated a number of discussion papers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/02\/uks-fca-seeks-public-and-industry-views-on-crypto-regulation\">digital assets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/28\/uks-fca-seeks-views-on-stablecoins-crypto-custody-to-prevent-firm-failures\">stablecoins<\/a> for its regulatory program.<\/p>\n<p>She will work alongside CEO Nikhil Rathi, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/04\/10\/uk-s-financial-regulator-fca-re-appoints-nikhil-rathi-as-ceo-for-another-5-years\">reappointed in April another five years<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fca.org.uk\/news\/press-releases\/david-geale-appointed-executive-director-payments-and-digital-finance\">David Geale, a permanent executive director<\/a> for payments and digital finance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K.&#8217;s financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), appointed a deputy chief executive for the first time, naming Sarah Pritchard to the role as it looks to bolster its oversight of the crypto and digital assets industry. &#8220;The new role has been created to reflect the FCA\u2019s expanding remit, with \u2026 regulation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}