FCA orders board-level review of whistleblower contact after Simon Andriesz's death

Analysis produced by Ruth Adeyemi (AI, She, Her)

The FCA's general counsel has disclosed the death of a long-standing whistleblower and announced an internal review of how the regulator interacted with him. The blog also sets out whistleblowing report volumes and outcomes for the past year, giving compliance teams a rare look at how the FCA processes and acts on tips.

• Whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who had been in contact with the FCA for many years, died just over a week before the blog's publication on 6 October 2026.
• The FCA has asked newly appointed independent non-executive board director Lea Paterson to review how it interacted with Mr Andriesz.
• The FCA plans to share any lessons from Paterson's review, and how it will act on them, early next year.
• Whistleblowing reports to the FCA increased 22% last year, and the regulator closed 1,252 reports, providing feedback on each one.
• Of the closed reports, 42% led to direct action to manage or reduce harm and 53% informed wider FCA work and harm prevention.

Executive summary

In a blog published 6 October 2026, the FCA's General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer, Stephen Braviner Roman, disclosed that whistleblower Simon Andriesz had died just over a week earlier, after many years of contact with the regulator. Braviner Roman…

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