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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21 June 2021 - CP12/21 ‘Financial holding companies: Further implementation’
closes 22 July 20213 June 2021 – CP10/21 ‘Implementation of Basel standards: Non-performing loan securitisations’
closes 26 July 202129 June 2021 – FPC CP and PRA CP14/21 ‘Consultations by the FPC and PRA on changes to the UK leverage ratio framework’
closes 24 August 202125 June 2021 – CP13/21 ‘Occasional Consultation Paper – June 2021’
closes 25 August 20217 July 2021 – DP2/21 ‘Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change’
closes 30 September 20215 July 2021 – CP15/21 ‘Designating investment firms’
closes 5 October 20218 July 2021 – CP11/21 ‘Review of Solvency II: Reporting (Phase 1)’
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21 July 2021 – PS18/21 ‘Remuneration: Correction to the definition of ‘higher paid material risk taker’
9 July 2021 – PS17/21 ‘Implementation of Basel standards’
6 July 2021 – PS16/21 ‘Internal Rating Based UK mortgage risk weights: Managing deficiencies in model risk capture’
6 July 2021 – PS15/21 ‘Regulated fees and levies: Rates for 2021/22’
30 June 2021 – PS14/21 ‘Margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives: Amendments to BTS 2016/2251’
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21 July 2021 - Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017 - Annual Report 2020/21
20 July 2021 - We published a letter from Charlotte Gerken ‘Gathering data for the Solvency II Review’, and updated our Review of Solvency II: Quantitative Impact Survey (QIS) page, announcing its launch and providing more information to firms.
19 July 2021 - PRA statement on the recalculation of the Transitional Measure on Technical Provisions (TMTP)
17 June 2021 - We published the PRA Annual Report 2020/21, covering PRA activities 1 March 2020 – 28 February 2021.
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27 April 2021 - PRA statement on the disclosure of exposures subject to measures applied in response to Covid-19
16 February 2021 - Virtual Meetings with the PRA’s Senior Advisors
9 February 2021 - PRA statement on supervisory benchmarking exercise relating to capital internal models
5 February 2021 - PRA statement on Covid-19 regulatory reporting amendments
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.
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This page was last updated 21 July 2021
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