The FCA is the conduct regulator for around 42,000 financial services firms in the UK, and the prudential supervisor for most of them.
What they do
The FCA authorises firms, regulates conduct in retail and wholesale markets, supervises AML compliance for most financial firms and cryptoasset businesses, sets Consumer Duty standards, and imposes fines and prohibitions through its enforcement division.
Spotted something wrong, missing or worth adding? Tell our editors. Every submission
is reviewed and verified against its source before anything changes — nothing you send appears on the
site automatically.
Thank you — our editors will review this
Your suggestion has been received. Contributions from practitioners keep these profiles accurate. Nothing appears on the site until an editor has verified it against its source.
