Senior Associate – Funds Policy
David Burrows holds a position in Fund and Asset Management Policy at the Financial Conduct Authority. He is identified as a named contact for FCA consultation work in this area, with his name appearing on correspondence related to Consultation Paper 25/28 on progressing fund tokenisation in the UK, published in 2025.
The source content establishes his institutional affiliation and direct involvement in the FCA's fund tokenisation consultation but does not provide further details on his career history, prior roles, or educational background in connection with this position.
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Lead Associate Digital Assets
Kate Beckett is Lead Associate (Acting), Digital Assets at the Financial Conduct Authority, a position she has held since November 2024. She also holds the concurrent title of Senior Associate, Digital Assets, a role she has occupied since September 2023. Her work sits within the FCA's Digital Assets division, focused on the regulation of crypto assets.
Prior to her move into Digital Assets, Beckett served as an Associate in the FCA's Consumer Investments division from April 2022 to September 2023. Before joining the FCA, she worked as an Investigator at the Financial Ombudsman Service from November 2019 to April 2022, resolving complaints between consumers and financial services businesses. She also held a short-term Associate role at AQA from May to November 2019. Beckett holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Manchester.
Director, Payments & Digital Assets, Financial Conduct Authority
Matthew Long is Director, Payments and Digital Assets at the Financial Conduct Authority, a role he has held since October 2022. He is responsible for Market Interventions, Market Analysis and Policy across the Payments and Digital Asset portfolios, and supervises approximately 1,300 payments firms. He leads the FCA's work on the UK regulatory regime for crypto, including the crypto financial promotions regime and the proposed UK stablecoins regime. He also oversees the development of open banking and has been responsible for the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee's Roadmap for the next phase of open banking in the UK. On the international side, he leads the IOSCO Fintech Task Force Crypto and Digital Assets Working Group, which produced the IOSCO Policy Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset Markets, addressing market integrity and investor protection concerns arising from cryptoasset activities. He also leads work to promote, monitor and assess adoption of effective regulatory regimes for crypto across IOSCO member jurisdictions.
Prior to joining the FCA, Long served as Director of the National Economic Crime Command within the National Crime Agency, where he led the multi-agency National Economic Crime Centre and the UK Financial Intelligence Unit, which holds national responsibility for receiving, analysing and disseminating financial intelligence under the Suspicious Activity Reports Regime. Earlier in his career he led the response to Organised Immigration Crime, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, Drugs, Firearms, and Borders, and led the programme to build the National Data Exploitation Capability. He began his career as a detective in Kent Police, where he qualified as a Senior Investigating Officer and led over 400 investigations. He holds a PhD in Risk Management.
Head Of Department - Market Interventions - Digital Assets
Victoria McLoughlin is Head of Department, Market Interventions (Digital Assets) at the Financial Conduct Authority, a position she has held since July 2022. In this role she oversees multiple teams of managers, supervisors, crypto subject matter experts, intelligence professionals, and blockchain specialists. Her remit covers the development of threat assessments, supervisory responses, and strategy aimed at delivering effective markets and protecting consumers. She is responsible for supervising registered, unregistered, and new entrant digital asset firms based in the UK, and for supporting the development of a new regulatory regime aligned with the UK Government's stated vision for crypto.
McLoughlin joined the FCA in 2009 as an Associate and spent over a decade at the regulator in various capacities, including work on the design, implementation, and embedding of the FCA's approach to supervising firms. From January 2020 to April 2022 she served as Supervision Manager for Cryptoassets and Digital Markets, leading the FCA's supervision of virtual asset service providers and cryptoasset firms during that period. She was appointed interim Head of the Digital Assets Department in April 2022 before the role became permanent from July 2022. Her stated areas of technical expertise include financial crime and AML, crypto and digital assets, distributed ledger technology, consumer investments, retail lending, cyber resilience, and fintech. She holds a qualification as a coach and has referenced interests in NLP and strengths-based leadership. No educational institution is cited in the source content beyond the existing biography's reference to Nottingham Trent University, which does not appear in the retrieved sources and is therefore excluded.


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