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31. Occasional Paper 56: Fair exchange: Presenting foreign exchange quotes to improve consumer choice

    Occasional papers Published: 01/09/2020 Last modified: 02/09/2020
    In this study, we tested 3 different practices for presenting cost and exchange rate information in an online experiment with a nationally representative sample of participants.

32. Occasional paper No.40: Time to act: A field experiment on overdraft alerts

    Occasional papers Published: 24/07/2018 Last modified: 24/07/2018
    As part of the high-cost credit review, the FCA wanted to understand the impact of automatically enrolling customers into just-in-time arranged overdraft alerts and early warning alerts for overdrafts and unpaid items.

33. 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?

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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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38. Occasional Paper No. 55: Better the lender you know? Limited attention and lender familiarity in UK mortgage choices

    Occasional papers Published: 10/03/2020 Last modified: 13/03/2020
    This Occasional Paper looks at the effect of brand loyalty when borrowers are choosing new mortgages. 

39. Occasional Paper No. 45: The semblance of success in nudging consumers to pay down credit card debt

    Occasional papers Published: 26/07/2018 Last modified: 20/10/2020
    In this study we study consumer responses to a randomised field experiment on credit card debt repayment.

40. Occasional Paper No. 42: Increasing credit card payments using choice architecture: The case of anchors and prompts

    Occasional papers Published: 26/07/2018 Last modified: 20/10/2020
    In this paper we investigate ways to encourage consumers to repay more of their credit card debt.