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''Financial services - regulation - retail depositors - UK.''
(FSCS).
(FSCS).


The UK scheme that guarantees certain bank and building society depositors' funds - subject to limits - should the bank or building society fail.
The UK scheme that guarantees certain bank, building society or credit union depositors' funds - subject to limits - should the bank, building society or credit union fail.




With effect from 2016, the guaranteed amount in the UK is limited to £75,000.
The FSCS is funded by a levy on financial firms authorised and regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.
 
(It was previously £85,000.)




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==See also==
==See also==
* [[BIP]]
* [[Compensation]]
* [[Credit union]]
* [[Deposit Guarantee Scheme]]
* [[Deposit Guarantee Scheme]]
* [[Deposit insurance]]
* [[Deposit insurance]]
* [[DGSD]]
* [[DGSD]]
* [[Financial Conduct Authority]]
* [[Financial Ombudsman Service]]
* [[Insolvency waterfall]]
* [[International Association of Deposit Insurers]]
* [[Levy]]
* [[Prudential Regulation Authority]]
* [[Regulation]]
* [[Retail]]
* [[Retail]]
* [[Stability]]
* [[Stability]]
==External link==
* [https://www.fscs.org.uk/ FSCS website]
[[Category:Financial_risk_management]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]

Latest revision as of 14:19, 4 October 2023

Financial services - regulation - retail depositors - UK.

(FSCS).

The UK scheme that guarantees certain bank, building society or credit union depositors' funds - subject to limits - should the bank, building society or credit union fail.


The FSCS is funded by a levy on financial firms authorised and regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.


Similar deposit guarantee schemes operate in the majority of developed economies, under different names and with differing conditions and degrees of formality.


See also


External link