The FCA and its Practitioner Panel are set to launch a joint survey of 25,000 regulated corporations shortly to hunt suggestions on how the FCA is regulating the sector.

The 2024 survey will likely be despatched to a pattern of regulated corporations.

The survey will likely be carried out for the FCA by Verian (previously Kantar Public), an impartial social analysis organisation.

The annual survey will see an elevated pattern of 25,000 corporations coated this 12 months – about half of all regulated corporations.

The FCA is encouraging invited corporations to participate and says this 12 months’s survey is shorter than earlier years to make it simpler to reply.

The regulator says the survey will allow it to to raised perceive points affecting corporations and to evaluate any modifications it ought to make in its method as a part of its technique to turn into “a extra modern, assertive and adaptive regulator.”

The survey is among the sources of suggestions utilized by the FCA to guage its efficiency in opposition to key areas of its 3-year Technique. The outcomes will likely be introduced to the Practitioner Panel and the board and revealed in summer season 2024.

Following final 12 months’s survey suggestions the FCA stated it had:

• Improved its authorisations efficiency and processing occasions for corporations

• Launched a brand new Price Profit Evaluation Panel in 2024 to offer recommendation on value/profit evaluation and making certain it acts proportionately when introducing new insurance policies

• Ensured extra alternatives throughout 2024 for the fintech and regtech sector to be supported

• Analysed suggestions on knowledge requests from corporations, together with how lengthy they take to finish and any related prices incurred

The FCA stated anybody requested to participate who has questions can contact Verian on 0800 015 0302 or at This e mail tackle is being shielded from spambots. You want JavaScript enabled to view it.. Alternatively, corporations can contact the FCA Supervision Hub on 0300 500 0597.