{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/701",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Provision of information to the FCA concerning algorithmic trading",
  "text": "(1) If a member of, or participant in, a regulated market or multilateral trading facility (“M”) is subject to the requirements set out in regulation 30 the FCA may require M to provide the information specified in paragraph (2) on a regular or ad hoc basis.\n(2) The specified information for the purposes of paragraph (1) is—\n(a) a description of the nature of M's algorithmic trading strategies;\n(b) details of the trading parameters or limits to which M's trading systems are subject;\n(c) information concerning the compliance and risk controls M has in place to ensure M meets any requirements imposed on M by regulation 30(2) to (4) (“M's compliance and risk controls”);\n(d) details of M's testing of M's systems ... for the purposes of regulation 30(5);\n(e) any records M keeps for the purposes of regulation 30(8) and (9); and\n(f) any further information about M's algorithmic trading and systems used for that trading.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 31(1) substituted (2.1.2018) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) (No.2) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1255), regs. 2(a), 27(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2)(c) substituted (2.1.2018) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) (No.2) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1255), regs. 2(a), 27(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2)(d) omitted (2.1.2018) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) (No.2) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1255), regs. 2(a), 27(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 31(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1403), regs. 1(3), 9(8) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/701/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:10:02.096065+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}