Sustainable investing: objective gradings, greenwashing and consumer choice

Sustainable investing: objective gradings, greenwashing and consumer choice

Sustainable investing is on the rise. We outline findings from new analysis exploring the effects of presenting funds as sustainable in different ways on consumers’ investment decisions.

Financial Wellbeing - can we spot the signs of money worries

What does it mean to be ‘financially well’? Is it having a large bank balance and not getting into debt? Or is it not about how much money you have but rather how comfortable you feel? The answer...

Stay at home, move house, remortgage? Home loans during the...

The Coronavirus lockdown, recession, job insecurity and increasing caution among lenders all made 2020 a challenging year in the mortgage market. FCA economists examined how both lenders and...

The people science revolution – improving diversity objectiv

Encouraging diversity and inclusion is a vital task facing many organisations and assessing success inevitably starts with statistics. But while numbers provide an essential benchmark, it is...

Future Market Dynamics Part 3 – data sharing, trust and a wo...

What does this changing world with its new emphasis on data mean for the FCA’s prime concern, consumers? In the third of our articles we examine the final three of our future market dynamics: data...

Future Market Dynamics Part 2 - Big Tech and data disruption

The digital age has led to the rise of new forms of economic power and to a new focus on data as a vital economic and social asset – a trend brought into sharp focus and accelerated by the Covid-...

Future Market Dynamics - Part 1 Climate change and a changin...

As the Coronavirus crisis has shown, unforeseen events can turn the best laid plans on their head. Yet at the same time, amidst all the disruption, it is vital that public policy looks to the...