Financial Conduct Authority

The FCA's about page, reviewed on 10 November 2026, says it regulates the conduct of around 35,500 businesses so that financial markets work well, and it names consumer protection, market integrity and competition among its objectives. Its head office is at 12 Endeavour Square, London. The Financial Services Register, not this glossary, is where a firm's current permissions are checked. Every broker in this directory is recorded with a UK FCA entity only where the firm's own pages name one. The number of firms the FCA supervises changes. The about page is the source for the figure used here.