Our role
We regulate financial services firms in the UK, setting standards for firms to meet and holding them to account if they don't.
Our work helps underpin the UK’s reputation as a leading global financial centre – one where consumers are well served, and firms can operate and innovate with clarity and certainty.
- We regulate the conduct of around 42,000 businesses.
- We prudentially supervise[1] around 41,000 firms.
- Around 17,000 firms are subject to the prudential standards in our Handbook.
We were established on 1 April 2013, taking over conduct and relevant prudential regulation from the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
We work across the UK with a head office in London, offices in Leeds and Edinburgh, and colleagues in Belfast and Cardiff.