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UK, EU and global financial services round-up: FCA/PRA mutuals measures, FCA CP25/35, BoE rule review, EIOPA/EBA/ESAs updates, BCBS disclosure proposals (5 December 2025)

Published on: 05 December 2025

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UK, EU and global financial services developments

FCA and PRA announce raft of measures to support growth of mutuals sector

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have unveiled steps aimed at expanding the mutuals sector. Central to this is PRA policy statement PS26/25—Discontinuing SS20/15: Supervising building societies’ treasury and lending activities—which responds to feedback on consultation paper CP11/25. Through PS26/25 the PRA confirms it will remove supervisory statement SS20/15 in full, with no replacement.

Other actions include:

  • A review of credit union regulations.
  • Establishment of a Mutual Societies Development Unit at the FCA.

Acting as registering authority, the FCA has also issued an assessment of the mutual societies landscape, alongside related research.

In their joint ‘Mutuals Landscape Report’, the FCA and PRA outline their analysis of the sector and their plans to enable durable, sustainable growth by ensuring mutuals can compete on equal terms with other firms. The report further records the regulators’ intention to carry out a wide-ranging review of the credit union sector’s likely path and to reflect on how the sector’s regulatory framework should evolve over the longer term...

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