Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk
Financial Services Compensation Scheme Limited pays suppliers in 6 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms
Their H2 2026 filing puts the average 24 days inside their stated 30-day term.
- Their stated terms
- 30 days
- Paid outside agreed terms
- 1% of invoices
- Paid after 61+ days
- 0%
- Reporting period
- 1 Apr 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
- Source
- their gov.uk filing, filed 9 Oct 2026
Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.
Terms vs reality · their H2 2026 filing
Paid 24 days inside the 30-day term they state
Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices
The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports
9 → 6 days — getting faster
The read · computed from their figures
Financial Services Compensation Scheme Limited's H2 2026 filing puts their average at 6 days against stated terms of 30 days; 1% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 0% took 61 days or longer. Filed 9 Oct 2026.
The direction is faster: from 9 days in H1 2024 to 6 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.
On the latest reported averages: Faster than 97% of the 593 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.
That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.
In their own words · from the filing
Standard payment terms
Our standard payment period is 30 days from receipt of invoice for all contracts, unless a shorter period is specifically agreed. Our standard contract conditions can be found in the following location: https://www.fscs.org.uk/supplying-the-fscs/
Dispute resolution
Complaints from suppliers are raised with the FSCS employee who ordered the goods/services, or with the Finance team. Colleagues will seek to understand the issue as soon as practical in order to ascertain if the complaint arises from within the business (e.g. preventing the invoice being approved) or from within Finance (e.g. preventing an approved invoice being paid) and the relevant colleague will then respond directly to the supplier.
Every statutory report on record
Most recent first.
| Period | Avg days | Outside terms | 61+ days | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2 2026 | 6 | 1% | 0% | 9 Oct 2026 |
| H1 2026 | 7 | 1% | 0% | 14 Apr 2026 |
| H2 2025 | 8 | 1% | 0% | 8 Oct 2025 |
| H1 2025 | 8 | 2% | 0% | 11 Apr 2025 |
| H2 2024 | 8 | 2% | 1% | 16 Oct 2024 |
| H1 2024 | 9 | 4% | 2% | 4 Apr 2024 |
| H2 2023 | 8 | 1% | 0% | 9 Oct 2023 |
| H1 2023 | 8 | 3% | 0% | 20 Apr 2023 |
| H2 2022 | 8 | 2% | 0% | 14 Oct 2022 |
| H1 2022 | 8 | 1% | 0% | 6 Apr 2022 |
| H2 2021 | 9 | 2% | 0% | 12 Oct 2021 |
| H1 2021 | 10 | 6% | 1% | 27 Apr 2021 |
| H2 2020 | 14 | 7% | 1% | 27 Oct 2020 |
| H1 2020 | 14 | 9% | 1% | 27 Apr 2020 |
| H2 2019 | 12 | 6% | 0% | 28 Oct 2019 |
| H1 2019 | 12 | 7% | 0% | 29 Apr 2019 |
| H2 2018 | 16 | 17% | 0% | 30 Oct 2018 |
On the public register · Companies House
Company record
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Incorporated
- 3 Mar 2000
- Registered office
- 5TH FLOOR ST BOTOLPH BUILDING, LONDON, EC3A 7AW
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