Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk
The Financial Conduct Authority pays suppliers in 9 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms
Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 21 days inside their stated 30-day term.
- Their stated terms
- 30 days
- Paid outside agreed terms
- 2% of invoices
- Paid after 61+ days
- 0%
- Reporting period
- 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
- Source
- their gov.uk filing, filed 19 May 2026
Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.
Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing
Paid 21 days inside the 30-day term they state
Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices
The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports
Holding steady around 9 days
The read · computed from their figures
The Financial Conduct Authority's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 9 days against stated terms of 30 days; 2% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 0% took 61 days or longer. Filed 19 May 2026.
The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±1 days period to period.
On the latest reported averages: Faster than 93% of the 593 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.
That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.
What they tell their suppliers
In their own words · from the filing
Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms for goods and services are 30 days from invoice date. Payment is issued once invoice(s) have been fully authorised by the requesting business area and payment scheduled to be issued within agreed payment terms. All payments are issued on a weekly payment cycle.
Dispute resolution
Invoice payment disputes, complaints or concerns should be raised directly to the Accounts Payable Department via email [email protected], all payment dispute emails raised with the Accounts Payable Department will be responded to within two business days. If required, the Accounts Payable department will refer the dispute (e.g., the cause that is preventing invoice approval / payment) to the relevant business contact requesting the contact to respond directly to supplier. Should the dispute require further escalation, a request should be raised to the Accounts Payable manager whose details are available on request.
Every statutory report on record
Most recent first.
| Period | Avg days | Outside terms | 61+ days | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H1 2026 | 9 | 2% | 0% | 19 May 2026 |
| H2 2025 | 8 | 5% | 0% | 10 Nov 2025 |
| H1 2025 | 8 | 2% | 0% | 14 May 2025 |
| H2 2024 | 9 | 3% | 0% | 28 Oct 2024 |
| H1 2024 | 10 | 4% | 1% | 7 Jun 2024 |
| H2 2023 | 9 | 4% | 0% | 7 Jun 2024 |
| H1 2023 | 9 | 4% | 0% | 7 Nov 2023 |
| H2 2022 | 9 | 5% | 1% | 7 Nov 2023 |
| H1 2022 | 9 | 17% | 8% | 14 Jul 2022 |
| H2 2021 | 12 | 19% | 7% | 18 May 2022 |
| H1 2021 | 11 | 13% | 6% | 10 May 2021 |
| H2 2020 | 11 | 10% | 5% | 30 Oct 2020 |
| H1 2020 | 22 | 21% | 6% | 19 May 2020 |
| H2 2019 | 26 | 21% | 8% | 29 Oct 2019 |
| H1 2019 | 24 | 30% | 8% | 30 Jan 2020 |
| H2 2018 | 26 | 39% | 10% | 30 Jan 2020 |
| H1 2018 | 24 | 24% | 8% | 30 Jan 2020 |
On the public register · Companies House
Company record
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Incorporated
- 7 Jun 1985
- Registered office
- 12 ENDEAVOUR SQUARE, LONDON, E20 1JN
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How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.
The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).
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