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FCA Innovation – fintech, regtech and innovative businesses

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Our innovation services

Find out more about the services we offer to support innovative firms

Innovation support and services

We are committed to encouraging innovation in the interest of consumers through these initiatives

The regulatory sandbox allows businesses to test innovative propositions in the market with real consumers

How to request tailored regulatory support for innovative firms

We give feedback to firms developing automated advice and guidance models

Piloting a Digital Sandbox

Building on our approach to innovation, we collaborated with key strategic partners and the industry to pilot a Digital Sandbox

Regtech

Collaboration and knowledge sharing around new technologies supporting better regulation such as digital regulatory reporting and TechSprints

Our approach to Regtech

Engagement

Encouraging fintech innovation within firms based in the UK and internationally.

How we engage with businesses

TechSprints

Bringing market participants together to work on shared challenges in financial services

Global AML and Financial Crime TechSprint

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Our TechSprint to find better ways of increasing the detection and prevention rates of financial crime
See the solutions developed

Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI)

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We want to ensure consumers and markets benefit from the innovation that these data-driven technological changes bring
Read what we are doing

Innovation in focus

13 firms have been accepted into cohort 7 of the regulatory sandbox

The regulatory sandbox allows businesses to test innovative propositions in the market with real consumers.

The Digital sandbox pilot

The digital sandbox pilot will provide enhanced regulatory support to innovative firms tackling challenges caused by coronavirus

Digital sandbox pilot: FCA DataSprint

In July and August 2020, 120 participants collaborated on high-quality synthetic financial datasets to be used in our digital sandbox pilot

Financial Services AI Public Private Forum

The pursuit of artificial intelligence (AI) and use of machine learning (ML) are increasingly important fields of innovation in the financial services sector