The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will release the final version of its new handbook in September 2025, with a BETA version currently available to access for testing.
The new version includes better functionality including an advanced search tool, improved user guides, links to FCA news and updates, clarity of related policy/legal instruments/consultations alongside provisions. Members should test the BETA version of the handbook and provide feedback where relevant to the FCA using the online form or email [email protected].
Fees and levies
On 1 July 2025, the FCA published Policy Statement PS 25/8 which finalised its rules that enable it to collect fees and levies in 2025/26. The final fee and levy rates for 2025/26 differ in some places from the draft rates consulted on in CP 25/7 due to changes in the fee data.
FCA Annual Report
The FCA’s Annual Report for 2024/25 outlines what it delivered in the final year of its 2022-2025 strategy to reduce and prevent serious harm, set higher standards and promote competition and positive change. Key achievements include:
- Suspending, removing or blocking over 1,600 websites suspected of promoting financial services without permission.
- Collaborating with big tech platforms, resulting in over 50 apps being removed from Google Play and the App Store.
- Improving outcomes through the Consumer Duty, where work on GAP insurance has saved consumers £70m.
- Strengthening the UK’s position in global wholesale markets by introducing the biggest changes to the listing regime in over 3 decades, a new private stock market and reforms to the prospectus regime.
