UK regulators—financial services

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UK financial services regulatory framework

The Financial Services Act 2012 (FSA 2012) amended the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) and replaced the Financial Services Authority (FSA) with two new regulators—the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)—and created a new Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England (BoE). For more information, see Practice Note: Financial Services Act 2012 [Archived].

Firms that are dual-regulated, such as banks, insurers and major investment firms, are supervised by the PRA for prudential areas and by the FCA for conduct areas. All other firms are supervised by the FCA for both conduct and prudential issues. FSA 2012 also gave the FCA new powers to regulate benchmarks and transferred responsibility for the regulation of consumer credit from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the FCA. The FCA also performs the functions previously carried out by the FSA as UK Listing Authority.

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