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31. Occasional Paper No. 60: Banning Dark Pools: Venue Selection and Investor Trading Costs

    Occasional papers Published: 03/02/2021 Last modified: 03/02/2021
    This paper shows that investors can reduce their execution costs by selecting venues with less pre-trade transparency, such as dark pools or venues with similar characteristics.

32. Occasional Paper No. 54: When discounted rates end: the cost of taking action in the mortgage market

    Occasional papers Published: 10/03/2020 Last modified: 13/03/2020
    When an introductory mortgage rate expires the majority of borrowers remortgage, but a minority end up paying reversion interest rates. Who are these borrowers and how much could they benefit from remortgaging?

33. Occasional Paper No. 33: Choices of dominated mortgage products by UK consumers

    Occasional papers Published: 04/05/2018 Last modified: 29/01/2021
    As part of the mortgages market study, the FCA wanted to understand the extent to which UK consumers might save money when buying a mortgage and to understand what may be driving some to buy more expensive mortgages. This Occasional Paper

34. Occasional Paper No. 50: Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading 'Arms Race': A new methodology and estimates

    Occasional papers Published: 27/01/2020 Last modified: 25/06/2020
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35. Occasional Paper No. 59: Sitting on a gold mine: Getting what’s owed to pawnbroking customers

    Occasional papers Published: 20/01/2021 Last modified: 25/01/2022
    In 2018, the FCA found that pawnbroking customers are not always collecting the ‘surplus’ money owed to them. In this paper, we share the results of a first intervention designed to address this.

36. Occasional Paper No. 28: Preventing financial distress by predicting unaffordable consumer credit agreements: An applied framework

    Occasional papers Published: 31/07/2017 Last modified: 31/07/2017
    In this paper, we provide theoretical and practical evidence to help develop more effective affordability rules.

37. Occasional Paper No. 34: Effects of the advice requirement and intermediation in the UK mortgage market

    Occasional papers Published: 04/05/2018 Last modified: 29/01/2021
    As part of the mortgages market study, the FCA wanted to understand the extent to which UK consumers might save money when buying a mortgage and to understand what may be driving some to buy more expensive mortgages. This Occasional Paper

38. Occasional Paper No. 20: Can we predict which consumer credit users will suffer financial distress?

    Occasional papers Published: 03/08/2016 Last modified: 19/01/2021
    This paper analyses the prevalence of financial distress, how this distress is related to consumer credit use, and whether financial distress can be predicted.

39. Occasional Paper No. 32: Now you see it: drawing attention to charges in the asset management industry

    Occasional papers Published: 05/04/2018 Last modified: 05/04/2018
    As part of the Asset Management Market Study, the FCA wanted to understand the impact of different ways of presenting charges on investors’ decision-making and their understanding and awareness of charges.

40. Occasional Paper No. 47: Blackbird’s alarm call or nightingale’s lullaby? The effect of tweet risk warnings on attractiveness, search, and understanding

    Occasional papers Published: 13/12/2018 Last modified: 13/12/2018
    We present the results of a series of experiments to investigate the effects of risk warnings in social media adverts on attractiveness, search and understanding.