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Key definition

FCA definition

What does FCA mean? In legal practice, FCA means the UK financial conduct authority, the conduct regulator for most financial services firms and markets. It sets and enforces conduct standards (including the Consumer Duty), authorises firms and individuals, and oversees markets so they function well for consumers and market integrity. Created by the Financial Services Act 2012 and exercising powers under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA), the FCA replaced the FSA in 2013. It makes rules in the FCA Handbook, polices financial promotions (FSMA s.21), supervises firms, and uses extensive enforcement powers. The FCA is the UK competent authority...

FCA supervision: statutory framework under FSMA 2000, risk‑based oversight, decision‑making and diagnostic tools (including s166), sector priorities, prudential supervision of solo‑regulated firms, and PRA co‑ordination (UK)

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Practice notes

Introduction

This Practice Note reviews the statutory foundation of FCA supervision and the regulator’s supervisory methodology, including its decision‑making framework. It explores the FCA’s supervisory principles, areas of focus and priorities, and also sets out, in summary, how the FCA oversees firms on a day‑to‑day basis. The Note also addresses the supervisory stance taken towards retail and wholesale markets and towards international firms, as well as oversight of specialist domains (financial crime, fintech and outsourcing). It outlines the FCA’s co‑operation with other bodies, such as the PRA, and considers the prudential supervisory approach applied to firms outside of dual regulation with the PRA. The material draws principally on the following primary sources and references: FCA Mission: Approach to Supervision (April 2019), the FCA Handbook’s Supervision Manual (SUP), and FCA’s Mission Paper 2017: How we regulate financial services. Further background on the FCA and PRA can be found in the UK regulators—financial services—overview, as stated therein. Information on supervision by European regulators is contained in Practice Note: The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and the European System of Financial Supervision.

Overview of FCA supervision

The FCA’s overarching strategic objective is to ensure that relevant markets function effectively. In addition, the FCA pursues three...

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James Alleyne

Kingsley Napley

James is Legal Director in the firm’s Financial Services Group. He advises clients on the full spectrum of financial services and FCA-related matters, including on authorisation applications, perimeter and supervisory issues, enforcement investigations and cases before the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal.James joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from the FCA where he spent seven years in the Enforcement division, giving him a unique insight into the approach and working of the regulator.Whilst at the FCA James built the framework, and led the dedicated team responsible, for taking assertive supervisory intervention action against firms through the imposition of requirements, freezing of assets, banning of financial promotions and variations of permissions. James led many of the FCA’s highest profile interventions to date, including the banning of the world’s largest crypto exchange. James also has significant experience of advising on FCA criminal and...

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