Financial services offences

This Overview is a guide to the Lexis®PSL Financial Services subtopic Financial services offences, with links to appropriate materials.

The FCA and financial crime

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has a strategic objective under section 1B(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) to ensure that the UK's financial services markets function well. In discharging its functions it must aim to meet this strategic objective and advance one of its operational objectives: consumer protection, integrity and competition. Financial crime is an attack on the integrity of financial systems and this places the requirement to ensure that financial systems and business carried on by regulated persons (or in breach of the general prohibition) are not used in the furtherance of financial crime firmly in the FCA's remit. The FCA focuses in part on preventing the use of a regulated business (or a business that ought to be regulated) for illicit purposes, for example, by allowing criminals to deposit the proceeds of crime into that business in order to get them into the financial system. It is also concerned with maintaining market integrity by limiting

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