Philip Warland is stepping down as senior public policy adviser at Fidelity International at the end of January to take up strategic consulting work.

He has worked at Fidelity since July 2009, during an active period for regulation, in the wake of the credit crisis and measures taken to constrain the banks. He has been immersed in European attempts to introduced bonus caps; the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, covering hedge funds and private equity and much else besides.