FCA Financial Promotions Quarterly Data for 2023 Q3

UK financial regulator data from 1 July to 30 September 2023. The Financial Conduct Authority reviewed 1,211 financial adverts, resulting in 5,310 promotions being amended or withdrawn. This data provides an overview of the FCA's actions against firms breaching rules and its work to improve market standards.

Use Cases

• Analyze sector-specific intervention rates based on the reported retail lending (29%) and retail investments (41%) outcomes.
• Track quarterly trends in financial promotion enforcement actions by the UK regulator.
• Assess the scale and focus of consumer protection efforts in the financial advertising market.

Strengths

• Contains specific intervention counts: 1,211 adverts reviewed and 5,310 promotions amended/withdrawn.
• Provides a breakdown of outcomes by sector, with retail lending and investments accounting for over 70% of interventions.
• Covers a defined three-month period (Q3 2023) for temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and regulatory bias inherent to the UK financial market for this specific quarter.

Provenance

Source

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), aggregated by the Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Analysis of regulatory actions and investigations into financial promotions.

Time Range

1 July 2023 to 30 September 2023

Freshness

Covers Q3 2023; last update date is unknown.

Geography

United Kingdom