SUP 15.2 Purpose

A firm is required to provide the FCA with a wide range of information to enable the FCA to meet its responsibilities for monitoring the firm's compliance with requirements imposed by or under the Act. Some of this information is provided through regular reports, including those set out in SUP 16 (Reporting requirements) and SUP 17 (Transaction reporting). In addition, other chapters in the Handbook set out specific notification and reporting requirements. Principle 11 includes a requirement for a firm to disclose to the FCA appropriately anything relating to the firm of which the FCA would reasonably expect notice.

Payment service providers are required to provide the FCA with such information as the FCA may direct in respect of their provision of payment services or compliance with the requirements imposed by or under Parts 2 to 7 or regulation 105 of the Payment Services Regulations. The purpose of SUP 15.8 is to request information from full credit institutions where they provide (or propose to provide) account information services or payment initiation services. In addition to this general requirement, payment service providers are required under the Payment Services Regulations to notify the FCA on the occurrence of certain specified events. The purpose of SUP 15.14 is to provide directions and guidance to payment service providers on the form, content and timing of notifications required under the Payment Services Regulations.

This chapter sets out:

1. (1)

   guidance on the type of event or change in condition which a firm should consider notifying in accordance with Principle 11; the purpose of this guidance is to set out examples and not to give comprehensive advice to firms on what they should notify in order to be in compliance with Principle 11;

2. (2)

   rules on events and changes in condition that a firm must notify; these are the types of event that the FCA must be informed about, usually as soon as possible, if it is to be able to carry out its monitoring function effectively and react in good time to developments that may require a regulatory response;

3. (3)

   rules on the core information that a firm must provide to the FCA for example its name and address and the names of its other regulators, so that the FCA is able to maintain a relationship with the firm and with those regulators;

4. (4)

   rules requiring a firm to ensure that information provided to the FCA is accurate and complete; section 398 of the Act makes it an offence knowingly or recklessly to provide the FCA with information which is false or misleading in a material particular, in purported compliance with any requirement imposed by or under the Act; the purpose of the rules in SUP 15.6 is to ensure that firms take due care to ensure the accuracy of information and to require them to ensure that information is not only accurate but also complete;

5. (5)

   material (in SUP 15.10 (Notification of suspicious transactions or orders (market abuse)) which makes reference to the provisions of the Market Abuse Regulation that detail requirements on the reporting of transactions or orders about which there is reasonable suspicion of market abuse; and

6. (6)

   directions and guidance for a payment service provider on the form, content and timing of notifications required to be submitted to the FCA in accordance with or in relation to the Payment Services Regulations.

Rules and guidance have also been included to set out how firms should make a notification and to determine when it may be appropriate to discuss matters with their usual supervisory contact at the FCA by telephone (SUP 15.7).