- About us
About us
We want consumers to use financial services and products that meet their needs, from firms and individuals they can trust.
- Consumers
Protect yourself
- Protect yourself from unauthorised firms
- Unfair contracts
- Report an unauthorised firm
- Misleading advertisement
- Victims of fraud
Financial services products
Consumers
We want you to understand the financial products and services you use, and for firms to be clear about how they could affect your money, savings and investments.
- Firms
Firm types
Financial services products
About authorisation
- Do I need to be authorised?
- Getting Authorised
- Authorising solo-regulated firms
- Authorising dual-regulated firms
- Important changes to authorisation
Systems and reporting
Firms
If you are a firm or individual that carries out a regulated financial service market activity in the UK then you must be authorised by us.
- News
News
Read the latest news from the FCA about how we protect consumers, ensure our industry remains stable and promote healthy competition between financial services providers.
- Events
- Your FCA
Your FCA
Search the FCA archive for press releases, speeches, newsletters, speeches, policy and decision-making documents and other useful information.
How we are governed
The Board sets FCA policy, but day-to-day decisions and staff management are the responsibility of our Executive Committee.
We are accountable to the Treasury and, through them, to Parliament.
The FCA is operationally independent of Government and funded entirely by the firms we regulate.
We are an open and transparent organisation providing information for firms, consumers and others about our objectives, plans, policies and rules.
We also ask the difficult questions - that sometimes regulators shy away from asking - of firms, ourselves and consumers.
Corporate responsibility
Corporate citizenship and exercising corporate responsibility is an important element of our identity, both as an employer and a regulator.
Who do we report to?
The FCA is governed by a Board appointed by the Treasury.
Complaining about us
The Financial Services Act 2012 requires the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England to have arrangements for the investigation of complaints against them. These arrangements are known as the Complaints Scheme.
Our performance
This section outlines how we measure our own performance. As part of becoming the FCA there is some data that we have just started to collect. Consequently we are still preparing this part of the site and will publish as soon as the information has been collated. In the meantime, should you have any questions about this area, please contact us
Transparency
Find out how we use open practice and disclosure to regulate the financial services industry.
Compensation
Whether a firm is still in business, stopped trading or been declared in default, find out who you should contact.
Read MoreBanking rights
Find out what your rights are and how to use them.
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