Context
Alongside its Annual Report and Accounts, the FCA has published an update in relation to it Outcomes and Metrics 2025/2030, which includes commentary (four separate web pages) in relation to the four main elements of the FCA Strategy (helping consumers navigate their financial lives, being a smarter, more efficient and effective regulator, supporting growth, and fighting financial crime).
Key points to note and next actions
- The four strategy-theme web pages set out FCA progress 2025-26, describing the various required outcomes under each of the four themes, the metric descriptions, the source of the data to measure the outcomes, and the progress achieved (e.g., customers are better able to withstand a change in circumstances, seeing a continued improvement in firms’ perceived effectiveness of the FCA, sewing a more productive and innovative financial services industry, and observing a slowed growth in investment and Authorised Push Payment fraud).
- The Outcomes and Metrics overviews are accompanied by a number of other reports and data publications:
- The FCA’s operating service metrics 2025/26, with the usual .pdf spreadsheet format of the metrics;Secondary international competitiveness and growth objective (SICGO) metrics and Rules and Guidance Log;FCA ‘Use of our skilled person reports in 2025/26’ data;The FCA’s ‘Prescribed Persons Annual Report 2025/26’, acting as a ‘Prescribed Person’ in relation to whistleblowing disclosures made to the FCA under the Prescribed Persons Regulations 2017; and
- The publications also include a new web page to outline how the FCA measures and reports on its positive impact, a diversity, equity and inclusion progress update, updated FCA workforce representation information, and a gender pay gap action plan update.