Business Plan 2023/24 | FCA

Our strategic goal is to assure monetary services marketplaces perform nicely. 

Our operational goals are to: 

• secure an proper degree of security for consumers 
• protect and improve the integrity of the Uk money system 
• encourage effective competitors in the interests of individuals

We will shortly also have a new secondary objective to aid the worldwide competitiveness of the British isles economy and its progress in the medium to very long expression.  This is currently being launched as component of the Money Companies and Markets Bill which is at present going through Parliament.

As a financial solutions regulator, we have an essential purpose in the ongoing achievements of the United kingdom economic expert services marketplaces and their contribution to the British isles economy.

When marketplaces are successfully and proportionately controlled and firms are able to contend and innovate in a safe, dependable and steady surroundings, it added benefits buyers and investors, and it makes certain the United kingdom financial system, including monetary products and services, sustains its intercontinental competitiveness.

We absolutely embrace this secondary objective as already drastically in line with our strategy. We will additional increase our concentration on global competitiveness and development in providing our most important targets, when guaranteeing that there is no compromise on client protection, market place integrity or opposition in the interests of people. 

Our do the job incorporates increasing the attractiveness and worldwide reach of our wholesale markets. This incorporates making use of the opportunity produced by the transfer of retained EU law sharpening our operational effectiveness by way of ongoing advancements to our authorisations procedures and offering possibilities for United kingdom fiscal companies providers to make investments, innovate and expand in the Uk via, our Sandboxes, Innovation Pathways approach, management of the World-wide Economic Innovation Network and TechSprint programmes. 

Accountability is a crucial component of making certain we as a regulator provide what is envisioned of us. We will report each and every 12 months on how we’re providing our new secondary aim and are developing how greatest to evaluate our results. As intercontinental competitiveness and progress are influenced by broader Govt policy (these kinds of as tax and labour marketplaces policy), monetary coverage and economic disorders, we will concentration on measuring those features we can influence directly, and which are related to our coverage conclusions and describe wherever appropriate the interactions with other regions of Government policy. We will concentrate on the vital drivers of efficiency and will clarify how we expect our steps and outputs to facilitate global competitiveness and expansion.