The Financial Conduct Authority has lured a managing director in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's debt team, who has appeared in FN's annual list of the Most Influential Women in European finance three times, to a key supervisory role as head of investment banking.

Julia Hoggett has been with Bank of America Merrill Lynch since June 2010, and before that was the chief executive of an Irish unit of Germany's Depfa Bank and a debt capital markets banker at JP Morgan, where she began her investment banking career in the late 1990s.