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Dec 11
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Winners of the FSLA Essay Competition 2024

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We are delighted to announce the winners of the FSLA Essay Competition 2024.  The title for this year’s competition was: “With the rise of so-called “finfluencers”, how can the FCA and its international counterparts effectively protect younger consumers from high-risk investments such as cryptoassets and contracts for difference?”

Congratulations to Daniel Feltham, our first placed essayist and winner of the Chris Stallard Memorial Prize, and to second-placed Sessi Hundeyin and third-placed Charlie Lam.

We are grateful to our esteemed judging panel, (Professor Eva Lomnicka KC (hon), Travers Smith partner Phil Bartram, and Tracey McDermott, CBE (Group Head of Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance at Standard Chartered)), who were impressed with the standard of entries across the board. 

FSLA is grateful to all of the individuals who entered their work.

The top three essays are available to read at the link below, with thanks to our winners who allowed us to share them.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z2V-v7H3PVTovBg57Ee2jBNYZz4tgO8-?usp=sharing

“On both the prudential and conduct side, we thought that simple rules and principles would suffice to deliver good results…We now know the limits of those assumptions and we need to design new approaches.”

(Adair Turner)