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Occasional Paper No. 60: Banning Dark Pools: Venue Selection and Investor Trading Costs
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. -
Occasional Paper 56: Fair exchange: Presenting foreign exchange quotes to improve consumer choice
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. -
Occasional Paper No. 54: When discounted rates end: the cost of taking action in the mortgage market
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? -
Occasional Paper No. 43: Weighing anchor on credit card debt
In this study we conduct a hypothetical credit card payment experiment to test an intervention to de-anchor payment choices. -
Occasional Paper No. 17: Access to Financial Services in the UK
This paper aims to stimulate ideas and foster a culture of access and inclusion throughout retail financial services, that embraces firms, regulators, government and consumer organisations. -
Occasional Paper No. 59: Sitting on a gold mine: Getting what’s owed to pawnbroking customers
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. -
Occasional Paper No. 47: Blackbird’s alarm call or nightingale’s lullaby? The effect of tweet risk warnings on attractiveness, search, and understanding
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. -
Occasional Paper No. 35: Six of One…? Choice of intermediary in the UK mortgage market
As part of the FCA's mortgages market study, the FCA wanted to understand whether consumers’ borrowing costs vary materially depending on their choice of intermediary and, if so, why. -
Occasional Paper No. 26: From advert to action: behavioural insights into the advertising of financial products
How are we affected by financial advertising? What do we pay attention to and when might we be misled? In this paper we explore the science of advertising to answer these questions. -
Occasional Paper No. 23: Full disclosure: a round-up of FCA experimental research into giving information
This paper describes the results of eight experiments into giving information carried out by the FCA.