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Financial Conduct Authority
FCA · Financial supervisory authority
Employees
~4,900
2024/25
Annual budget
£780M
2024/25
Supervised entities
~42,000
2024
Overview
The UK's conduct regulator for ~42,000 financial services firms, plus prudential regulator for firms not supervised by the PRA. Runs one of Europe's most-scrutinised crypto AML registration regimes and is developing a full UK crypto authorisation framework under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023.
Mandate
Protect consumers, ensure market integrity, and promote effective competition in the UK's financial services sector.
Regulated sectors
Leadership
- Nikhil RathiChief Executive · since 2020
- Ashley AlderChair · since 2023
Key legislation
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
Foundational Act
Financial Services and Markets Act 2023
Post-Brexit rewrite; crypto framework
Money Laundering Regulations 2017
AML register for cryptoasset firms
Payment Services Regulations 2017
PSD2 (UK)
Public registers
Application portals
Recent publications
- Business Plan 2024/25
2024-03-19
- Cryptoasset regulatory framework consultation
2024-12-16
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What we know from actually filing here.
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