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The UK’s FCA is overhauling investment rules to simplify protections, boost long-term investing, and support innovation.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled sweeping reforms to boost retail investment, simplify disclosures, and clarify the split between retail and professional investors.
Key changes include replacing rigid, complex product warnings with clearer, consumer-friendly information, allowing experienced investors to opt out of retail protections if they meet a high threshold, and requiring firms to review all existing elective professional clients within a year.
The FCA also proposed provisional licensing for early-stage firms, reduced late return fees to £100, and is aligning rules with the Consumer Duty and recent Budget changes, including lowering the cash ISA limit and offering a stamp duty holiday on new UK IPOs.
These moves aim to encourage long-term investing, improve market competitiveness, and support innovation while maintaining strong protections for retail investors.
La FCA del Reino Unido está revisando las reglas de inversión para simplificar las protecciones, impulsar la inversión a largo plazo y apoyar la innovación.