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Fca

How should the UK's conduct regulator supervise a rapidly expanding embedded finance and open banking ecosystem while protecting consumers and maintaining market integrity?

Founded2013
HQLondon, United Kingdom
IndustryOther / Financial Regulator
The story

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is the UK's statutory conduct regulator for financial services firms, not a commercial embedded finance company. It licenses and supervises payment institutions, electronic money institutions, banks, insurers, and investment firms. The FCA does not itself use embedded finance vendors as a customer; rather, it is the regulatory authority that grants permissions (e.g. AISP, PISP, EMI, payment institution) to embedded finance providers such as Yapily, Checkout.com, and Modulr. Evidence gathered conflates the regulator with a commercial entity — no embedded finance stack is applicable.

Last 12 months
2026-02
2023-01
Product timeline
2013
FCA established as successor to the FSA under the Financial Services Act 2012, taking over conduct regulation of financial services firms in the UK.· pivot
2026
FCA published final rules for regulation of Deferred Payment Credit (Buy Now Pay Later / BNPL), with regulation commencing 15 July 2026.· banking
Regulated entities
Statutory Regulatory Body
UK · 2013
Financial Conduct Authority
The stack
Accounting gap: none