Oliver Page
Director of the Complex Groups Division
Financial Services Authority

Oliver Page was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College Cambridge.
From university he joined the Bank of England in1968. Positions held whilst at the Bank include: Chief Manager, Reserves Management; 1996 Deputy Director, Supervision and Surveillance.

On 1st June 1998, on the move to the FSA, he became Director of the Complex Groups Division. This division was responsible for the supervision of complex banking and investment banking groups. This evolved in April 2001 into Major Financial Groups Division, which added responsibility for the UK's major insurance groups. This now evolves further to Major Retail Groups Division, which will focus mainly on (more) of the major UK banks and insurance companies, plus some large building societies, fund managers and IFA networks.

In addition he also represents the FSA on the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors. From April 2004 he will be the Sector Leader for financial stability and business continuity planning, as part of which he is on the Tripartite Standing Committee. He is also responsible for various FSA projects including two of this year's business priorities – on treating customers fairly, which aims to ensure firms build tcf into their businesses, and on ARROW, which aims to improve this core framework of risk based regulation and build it more fully into all aspects of FSA's working life.