The Financial Conduct Authority is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK Government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry.

Steve Green is the Head of Central Data Services at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). His department looks after all data management and collection activities for the FCA, as well as running a number of central data advisory, analysis and insight functions.

Steve is also the Accountable Executive in charge of the FCA’s Data Strategy implementation, transforming the way the FCA exploits its data and covering the replacement of all key data platforms.

Prior to joining the FCA, Steve worked on implementing large scale technology driven change across a variety of businesses.

EPISODE LINKS:

FCA: Financial Conduct Authority https://www.fca.org.uk/

Steve’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-green-3197821/

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TIMESTAMPS:

• 01:09 Introduction, FCA, Who is Steve
• 03:00 The data strategy
• 03:35 Data strategy – the business drivers
• 06:21 – Do you see the Business Driving Data or the FCA becoming Data Driven – or a lifecycle including both?
• 08:15 Lessons from other firms
• 09:46 Data is a huge domain, how do you ensure what is produced is: relevant, reliable, repeatable, and current
• 12:40 Change in market dynamics, and what it means for the FCA
• 17:15 How do you balance the need to be strategic with quick wins to demonstrate progress?
• 22:08 How do you integrate a horizontal programme of change across FCA’s silos? How do you avoid an ivory tower scenario?
• 26:57 FCA’s data operating model, company culture
• 30:23 Agile ways of working and waterfall…
• 32:35 Strategy at the FCA
• 34:02 Do you think we think widely enough about data? If we thought about data like researchers, we’d be thinking a lot more; do you agree? Any thoughts?
• 38:46 FCA’s move to cloud
• 40:40 Data within banks – given you are transforming within the FCA, any lessons that can be learnt for those institutions that you regulate?
• 42:35 Lessons learned from your journey so far?
• 48:11 Any surprises? Things that your program did that you didn’t expect?
• 51:46 What are the conversations we have a duty to continue/start discussing?
• 57:58 What are the skills and/or character traits that helped you so far in your life?