E-money transaction volumes and values including fraud figures

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Dear The Financial Conduct Authority,

Please could you provide the totals across all reporting firms for row 167
- for each column: A through L
- and for each year: 2020, 2021 and 2022
- as captured under Report 017:
https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/form/sup...

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Freedom of Information: Right to know request

 

Thank you for your email of 24 May 2023, in which you asked for:

 

‘the totals across all reporting firms for row 167

·         For each column: A through L

·         And for each year: 2020, 2021 and 2022

·         As captured under Report 017

[1]https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/form/sup...

 

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We can confirm that we hold the requested information, which can be found
in the below tables.

 

E-Money Payment transactions

 

Table 1

 

┌────┬─────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────┬─────────────────┬───────────┬─────────────────┐
│  │ A │ B │ C │ D │ E │ F │
├────┴─────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────┤
│ Geographical breakdown for payment transactions │
├────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┤
│  │ Domestic │ Cross-border within EEA │ Cross border outside EEA │
├────┼─────────────┬──────────────────┼───────────┬─────────────────┼───────────┬─────────────────┤
│Year│ By volume │ By value (£) │ By volume │ By value (£) │ By volume │ By value (£) │
├────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┤
│2020│ 940,707,025 │99,548,503,069.94 │978,824,264│78,858,539,548.10│231,966,557│55,366,213,223.00│
├────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┤
│2021│ 867,723,914 │272,097,265,142.09│154,877,195│33,431,023,784.46│156,944,102│44,712,130,043.81│
├────┼─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────────┤
│2022│2,072,661,762│508,962,290,697.42│439,144,308│51,784,223,721.04│228,851,117│67,794,394,080.07│
└────┴─────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────────┘

 

Table 2

 

┌────┬────────┬─────────────┬────────┬─────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│  │ G │ H │ I │ J │ K │ L │
├────┴────────┴─────────────┴────────┴─────────────┴───────┴─────────────┤
│ Geographical breakdown for fraudulent payment transactions │
├────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┤
│  │ Domestic │ Cross-border within │Cross border outside │
│ │ │ EEA │ EEA │
├────┼────────┬─────────────┼────────┬─────────────┼───────┬─────────────┤
│ │ By │By value (£) │ By │By value (£) │ By │By value (£) │
│Year│ volume │ │ Volume │ │volume │ │
├────┼────────┼─────────────┼────────┼─────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│2020│257,474 │92,178,726.19│564,647 │88,215,402.64│564,585│86,259,946.14│
├────┼────────┼─────────────┼────────┼─────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│2021│172,486 │39,004,452.73│204,184 │10,988,905.91│317,096│16,763,755.89│
├────┼────────┼─────────────┼────────┼─────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│2022│223,769 │62,612,052.95│131,869 │18,589,269.75│253,754│29,027,315.16│
└────┴────────┴─────────────┴────────┴─────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘

 

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