FCA and PRA lift 15% cap on individual lenders' high-LTI mortgage lending
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The FCA and PRA have jointly recalibrated how the FPC's loan-to-income flow limit is enforced. Individual mortgage lenders may now push their share of high-LTI lending above 15%, provided the market-wide flow stays consistent with that limit. This item covers who the new guidance binds, how the aggregate flow will be measured and published quarterly, and where the supervisory attention now falls.
- Individual lenders may now exceed a 15% share of high-LTI lending, with the 15% limit instead applied to aggregate market flow.
- FG26/11 replaces FG14/8 (2014), revised by FG17/2 (2017) and FG25/4 (July 2025); PRA amended its Rulebook and issued a new supervisory statement.
- PRA and FCA will calculate aggregate high-LTI flow quarterly; PRA publishes the figure with completed mortgage volumes and share.
Executive summary
The FCA on 14 October 2026 published FG26/11, finalised general guidance on the Financial Policy Committee's loan-to-income (LTI) flow limit recommendation in mortgage lending. It replaces guidance first issued in October 2014 (FG14/8) and revised in February 2017 (FG17/2) and…
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https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/finalised-guidance/fg26-11-high-loan-income-lendingRead by Regulus 14 Oct 2026 at 18:07 UTC
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