On October 26, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation (Consultation) on its “future mission”—which are the FCA’s priorities and approaches to regulation for the coming years. The Consultation invites feedback on several key topics, including:

• the functioning of markets;
• meeting the FCA’s policy objectives;
• balancing conduct regulation and public policy;
• consumer protection, redress and vulnerable consumers;
• transparency and disclosures;
• FCA intervention;
• competition;
• supervision of firms; and
• the FCA’s approach to enforcement.

Responses to the Consultation must be submitted to the FCA by January 26, 2017.

A copy of the Consultation is available here, and the FCA’s accompanying press release is available here.