Information on non-financial misconduct and financial misconduct allegations - May 2022


Reference Case Number: FOI9186

Freedom of Information: Right to know request:

Allegations received via your Whistleblowing Team:

The number of non-financial misconduct allegations received by the FCA, and the number of non-financial misconduct allegations broken down by different types of non-financial misconduct (any categories you use internally).

The number of financial misconduct allegations received by the FCA, and the number of financial misconduct allegations broken down by different types of financial misconduct (any categories you use internally).

I would like this data as a total for each of the last five years, with March 31 as year-end. If this is not possible then please use the year-end used internally by the organisation.

If you are unable to provide five years of data, please provide four years of data, if you are unable to provide four years of data, please provide three years of data, otherwise please provide data for the last two years.’

FCA response:

The Whistleblowing team do not record allegations according to the terms ‘Non-Financial Misconduct’ or ‘Financial Misconduct’.  The categories we use describe the specific nature of the reported issue.  Very often more than one allegation will be made in each disclosure.  The below table sets out the number of whistleblowing allegations reported to us over the last 3 calendar years (not the number of disclosures) under each of our allegation category headings.

 

Allegation Subject

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Total

Total

Total

Total

Total

Fitness & Propriety

239

301

443

384

353

Systems & Controls

166

146

396

290

131

Compliance

63

107

375

525

229

Treating Customers Fairly

74

246

342

314

282

Culture of organisation

132

136

219

211

184

Consumer Detriment

131

114

161

185

100

Fraud

111

109

119

119

136

Data Security

28

67

109

86

57

Unauthorised Business

65

51

92

117

95

SYSC 18

0

19

70

62

74

Mis-selling

37

54

67

54

51

Pressure Selling

35

49

57

54

26

KYC

12

18

50

36

22

FSMA

76

72

45

28

178

Capital Adequacy

N/A

N/A

39

51

46

AML

24

35

38

33

16

Market Activity

19

17

25

35

27

Insider Dealing

23

18

21

21

14

Consumer Credit

50

27

17

29

16

Market Manipulation

20

41

16

21

18

Remuneration and incentivisation

10

16

15

17

21

Pension

23

22

12

7

23

Crime

11

14

8

14

26

Competition

2

4

4

1

2

Non-regulated products

1

1

3

2

5

FX-related

5

2

2

0

2

Client Assets

10

19

1

6

13

Terrorist Finance

1

6

1

5

4

Bribery & Corruption

16

9

0

11

14

Business Continuity Planning

N/A

N/A

0

24

2

Covid 19

N/A

N/A

0

55

34

OPBAS AML

0

1

0

1

0

Senior Manager Regime

5

1

1

0

0

Sexual Harassment

0

5

13

8

0

Benchmarks

5

0

0

0

0