UK FCA Handbook No.133

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Handbook Notice 133, outlining updates to the FCA Handbook resulting from the following statutory instruments:

• Payments and Electronic Money (Safeguarding) Instrument 2025, enters into force on 7 May 2026, updating the rules to better capture non-financial misconduct (NFM) in non-banks.
• Insurance: Conduct of Business Sourcebook (Access to Travel Insurance) (Amendment) Instrument 2025, enters into force on 1 January 2026 and makes amendments to increase the medical condition premium trigger point for firms to signpost consumers with pre-existing medical conditions to a directory of specialist providers, futureproof the threshold in line with inflation as well as limiting directory entries in a medical cover firm directory to 1 per firm.
• Supervision Manual (Amendment) Instrument 2025, entered into force on 3 October and updates guidance in the supervision manual relating to applications for cancellation of authorisation to account for a change in legislation.
• Consumer Credit (Regulatory Reporting) (Amendment) (No 3) Instrument 2025, entered into force on 3 October to introduce a new CCR009 return as part of a wider review of consumer credit data and to amend the notification reporting period for REP008 to reduce firm burden.
• Collective Investment Schemes Sourcebook (Reports and Accounts) Amendment Instrument 2025 entered into force on 3 October, making amendments to simplify the reporting requirements for firms under the Assessment of Value regime in COLL.
• Handbook Administration (No 75) Instrument 2025, entered into force on 3 October, making minor changes to various modules of the Handbook.

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