Regulatory Updates

High quality baseline financial resilience data is essential in helping the FCA to understand the risk of firm failure and risks across the financial services sector, improving its ability to protect consumers, ensure market integrity and ultimately, helping…

Following a qualitative survey of whistleblowers, and alongside the publication of the latest whistleblowing quarterly data, the FCA has set out actions to improve the confidence of whistleblowers – including sharing further information with whistleblowers on…

The FCA is consulting on the rates for the regulatory fees and levies for the next financial year (1 April to 31 March). The Consultation Paper (CP 23/7) explains how it proposes to recover the costs of carrying out its work, covering: The FCA’s annual…

Although the FCA published a three-year Strategy last year, it also published the usual 12-month Business Plan, and has done so again this year. Within the Business Plan 2023/24 the FCA has set out an ambitious programme for the next 12 months to achieve…

The FOS award limit is the maximum amount it can require a financial business to pay when it upholds complaints. This limit is adjusted each year in line with inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). The FCA has confirmed that, from 1…

The FCA has published a call for input on whether the thresholds for SMEs to be able to refer complaints to FOS remain appropriate. This review seeks to ensure that access to the Ombudsman Service remains available for SMEs that are unlikely to be able to…