MS24/2 Premium Finance Market Study

Proposed Terms of Reference announced
16/10/2024
Invitation for stakeholder views by
18/11/2024
Initial findings published
22/07/2025
22/07/2025

Our Terms of Reference set out why we are doing the market study, its scope, the key issues we'll explore, the potential outcomes that our work might lead to, and our next steps.

Read the proposed Terms of Reference (PDF)

Who this market study applies to

This market study is relevant for a range of parties including:

  • Current and potential suppliers of premium finance and other products that allow UK insurance customers to pay their policy premiums in instalments.
  • Premium finance motor and home insurance customers.  

Why are we doing this market study

We are launching this market study because:

  • Premium finance is an important product for many customers.
  • We’ve been concerned about premium finance for some time.
  • We’re concerned that premium finance may not represent fair value for some customers and that competition may not be functioning effectively.  Rising premium prices may be making the situation worse.  

Initial findings

We have published an Update paper for the Premium Finance Market Study (PFMS). This paper summarises the initial findings of the market study, launched in October 2024 as part of our wider work on motor and home insurance. Alongside this we have published 3 papers that provide details of our initial findings: 

Give us your views

As part of the process to further develop our findings, we invite you to share your views on the issues set out in these papers. Please provide any views, as well as directing any other queries on the market study, to [email protected] by 5pm on Tuesday 30 September 2025.

Next Steps

As the market study progresses, we plan to carry out further analysis to better understand the nature of competition within the premium finance market.

We will actively engage with firms, industry groups, and stakeholders across the premium finance market to gather their views, which will support our ongoing work. We aim to publish our final report around the end of the year.