Reference Case Number: FOI2025/01717
Freedom of Information: Right to know request:
Please provide information from the REP-CRIM (Annual Financial Crime Report) for each of the reporting years 2025, 2024,2023, 2022, 2021, 2020.
Full details of your request can be found in Annex A below.
FCA response:
We report data at financial year level; therefore, we have provided the information in the format of 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.
For each data point in the REP-CRIM, we issue guidance notes for firms completing the return. These are available in the FCA Handbook under SUP 16 Annex 42B[1] (guidance notes for completion of the Annual Financial Crime Report).
The table below provides total figures, for financial years 2019/2020 to 2024/25, on firms in portfolios covering banks and building societies.
We regularly conduct data quality checks of the REP-CRIM dataset and have excluded three firm submissions where we noticed incorrect or poor data points from the below table. These submissions have no material impact on the overall numbers however we follow-up with the relevant firms and remind them that they must ensure that the data they submit is accurate.
| REP-CRIM | Financial Year Name | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Description | 2019/ 2020 | 2020/ 2021 | 2021/ 2022 | 2022/ 2023 | 2023/ 2024 | 2024/ 2025 | |
| 4a | The sum of firm’s relationships with Politically Exposed Persons, as at the end of the reporting period | 53,897 | 43,274 | 46,544 | 44,354 | 44,044 | 39,308 |
| 4b | The sum of firm’s relationships with Politically Exposed Persons, new in reporting period | 10,466 | 7,527 | 6,623 | 5,531 | 6,180 | 4,947 |
| 6a | The sum of firm’s relationships with All Other High-Risk Customers, as at the end of the reporting period | 467,061 | 461,229 | 537,887 | 734,914 | 771,627 | 578,161 |
| 6b | The sum of firm’s relationships with All Other High-Risk Customers, new in reporting period | 178,791 | 177,986 | 206,554 | 330,372 | 227,151 | 117,600 |
| 17a | The sum of firm’s customers linked to jurisdictions considered by the firm to be high-risk | 431,146 | 367,247 | 392,972 | 489,944 | 536,621 | 486,680 |
| 18a | The sum of firm’s customer relationships refused for financial crime reasons during the reporting period: | 385,602 | 614,864 | 703,107 | 897,219 | 1,063,853 | 1,076,895 |
| 18b | The sum of firm’s customer relationships exited for financial crime reasons during the reporting period: | 256,176 | 350,705 | 363,555 | 325,653 | 421,116 | 473,556 |
| 19a | The sum of firm’s suspicious activity reports (SARs) under Part 7 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002, Submitted internally to the nominated officer/MLRO within the firm as at the end of the reporting period | 924,014 | 993,260 | 1,151,576 | 1,526,676 | 1,554,826 | 1,684,712 |
| 19b | The sum of firm’s suspicious activity reports (SARs) under Part 7 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002, Disclosed to the National Crime Agency as at the end of the reporting period | 469,190 | 504,373 | 651,681 | 589,983 | 616,948 | 620,872 |
| 19c | The sum of firm’s suspicious activity reports (SARs) under Part 7 of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002, The number of those SARs which were consent requests under s.335 POCA 2002 | 22,715 | 34,516 | 31,626 | 33,360 | 27,148 | 32,821 |
| 20a | The sum of firm’s SARs disclosed to the National Crime Agency under the Terrorism Act 2000 during the reporting period | 597 | 644 | 600 | 562 | 434 | 533 |
| 21a | The sum of firm’s investigative court orders received as at the end of the reporting period | 112,147 | 81,561 | 81,879 | 85,554 | 97,468 | 100,044 |
| 22a | The sum of firm’s restraint orders being serviced/in effect as at the end of the reporting period and the number of new restraint orders received during the reporting period: Restraint orders being serviced/ in effect as at the end of the reporting period | 11,030 | 10,224 | 10,031 | 7,440 | 7,665 | 9,950 |
| 22b | The sum of firms restraint orders being serviced/in effect as at the end of the reporting period and the number of new restraint orders received during the reporting period: New restraint orders received during the reporting period | 2,497 | 2,785 | 3,041 | 3,287 | 3,699 | 4,350 |
| 25a | As at the end of the reporting period, The sum of firms total FTE of UK staff with financial crime roles | 11,256.37 | 11,609.79 | 14,247.2 | 17,388.16 | 18,158.31 | 20,009.38 |