We are the Prudential Regulation Authority
As part of the Bank of England, we are responsible for the prudential regulation and supervision of around 1,500 banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms. Find out which firms we regulate.
We create policy for the firms we regulate to follow, enacted through the PRA Rulebook. Our rules require financial firms to maintain sufficient capital and have adequate risk controls in place.
We also supervise firms, to ensure that we have a comprehensive overview of their activities so that we can step in if they are not being run in a safe and sound way or, in the case of insurers, if they are not protecting policyholders adequately.
Our three objectives:
Promote the safety and soundness of the firms we regulate
Contribute to securing an appropriate degree of protection for insurance policyholders
Facilitate effective competition between firms
Latest news and publications
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15 July 2022 – CP8/22 - Remuneration: Unvested pay, Material Risk Takers and public appointments
Closes 19 September 202222 July 2022: CP13/22 ‘Amendments to the PRA's approach to identifying other systemically important institutions (O-SIIs)’
Closes 22 September 202212 July 2022 – CP10/22 'Insurance special purpose vehicles: Further updates to authorisation and supervision’
Closes 12 October 202212 July 2022 – CP11/22 - Margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives: Amendments to BTS 2016/2251
Closes 12 October 202221 June 2022 – CP6/22 ‘Model risk management principles for banks’
Closes 21 October 202221 July 2022 – DP3/22 ‘Operational resilience: Critical third parties to the UK financial sector’
Closes 23 December 2022 -
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21 July 2022: We published a letter from Sam Woods and Nikhil Rathi to CEOs of PRA and FCA regulated-firms on the work both regulators are doing as part of the joint transformation programme to improve the way that data is collected.
19 July 2022: We published a statement on the launch of the Policy Index.
6 July 2022: We published a statement on the recalculation of the Transitional Measure on Technical Provisions (TMTP), relevant to PRA-regulated insurance firms.
More PRA publications
Subject to any transitional relief, PRA supervisory statements and PRA statements of policy applicable before 11pm Thursday 31 December 2020 should be read in conjunction with Supervisory Statement (SS) 1/19. This sets out how we expect firms to interpret EU-based references in non-binding PRA regulatory and supervisory materials after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and the end of the transition period.
Information on other PRA publications can be found using the link below.
For a more in-depth look at our key regulatory news and publications for month, read our latest Regulatory Digest.
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This page was last updated 08 August 2022
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