Ruth has extensive regulatory experience, having worked at the Bank of England and the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority for almost 15 years in the Supervisory and Markets areas. She supervised one of the United Kingdom's largest retail and wholesale banking groups. She managed the FSA's Market Conduct team where she specialized in investigating preliminary cases of potential market abuse and insider trading, assisting the FSA's enforcement division with formal investigations and leading the FSA's assessment of firms' anti-market abuse systems and controls. The work included assessments of firms' controls in the areas of overall market abuse policies and procedures, suspicious transaction reporting capabilities, Chinese Walls, Personal Account Dealing, controls to prevent leakage of information, handling rumors and short selling.