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The FCA regulates financial firms providing services to consumers and maintains the integrity of the financial markets in the United Kingdom. [3] It focuses on the regulation of conduct by both retail and wholesale financial services firms. [4] Like its predecessor the FSA, the FCA is structured as a company limited by guarantee. [5]: 140
The Financial Ombudsman Service is an ombudsman in the United Kingdom.It was established in 2000, and given statutory powers in 2001 by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, to help settle disputes between consumers and UK-based businesses providing financial services, such as banks, building societies, insurance companies, investment firms, financial advisers and finance companies.
Financial Supervisory Authority (AMF) Algeria: Commission d'Organisation et de Surveillance des Opérations de Bourse (COSOB) Andorra: Andorran Financial Authority (AFA) Angola: Capital Markets Commission (CMC) ; Agência Angolana de Regulação e Supervisão de Seguros (ARSEG) Anguilla: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank ; Financial Services ...
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is the UK's statutory compensation scheme for customers of UK authorised financial services firms. This means it can step in to pay compensation if a firm is unable, or likely to be unable, to pay claims against it. Compensation can be in any form and by any method it determines is appropriate. [1]
Super-complaints have also specifically been introduced for the financial markets in the UK under the aegis of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). [2] The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) provides that certain consumer bodies may complain to the FCA about features of a market for financial services in the UK that may be ...
The Financial Conduct Authority Handbook is a set of rules required to be followed by banks, insurers, investment businesses and other financial services in the United Kingdom under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. It is administered by the Financial Conduct Authority in London.
The Financial Services Act 2012 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which implements a new regulatory framework for the financial system and financial services in the UK. It replaces the Financial Services Authority with two new regulators, namely the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority, and creates ...
Three UK agencies, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office, were tasked with considering the case for a US-style False Claims Act in the UK. [56] In July 2014, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority recommended Parliament enact strong ...