FCA Tightens Grip: Crypto Firms Face New Governance and Transparency Rules 

3 October 2025 – London: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is moving proactively to bring stronger guardrails to the crypto sector with new proposals targeting business practices — a push many see as essential for maturity and legitimacy in a volatile market. 

Under the proposed rules, crypto firms would face stricter requirements around transparency, conflict-of-interest management, and governance standards. Firms would be required to clearly disclose trading costs, present risk statements more prominently, and ensure that executives avoid incentives misaligned with customer interests. 

Why now? The crypto ecosystem has suffered high-profile failures, consumer losses, and regulatory uncertainty. The FCA’s proposals aim to reduce systemic risk, protect retail investors, and encourage firms to adopt principles more akin to traditional financial institutions. The policy shift suggests that regulators expect digital-asset businesses to operate not just by innovation but by fiduciary responsibility. 

If adopted, these rules could raise the barrier to entry for new crypto players while pressing existing ones to refine their operations. Noncompliance may lead to sanctions, removal from authorized registers, or restrictions on marketing. 

In essence, the FCA is signaling that in crypto, innovation won’t be enough — ethical structure and trust will become nonnegotiable. 

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