Research Library | DRCF

Research Library

The DRCF Research Library collates research and reports on digital markets and regulation carried out by our four member regulators: the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Ofcom.

Recent DRCF research papers can be found on our publications page, along with joint papers, press releases, blogs and articles.

Competition and Markets Authority

Supporting growth and unlocking the opportunities of AI – Competition and Markets Authority (2024)

Overview of the CMA’s provisional approach to implement the new Digital Markets competition regime - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2024)#

Competition Act 1998 cases in the regulated sectors – Digital markets GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (updated 2023)

Trends in Digital Markets: a CMA horizon scanning report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2023)

CMA-Ofcom joint statement on online safety and competition - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2022)

Competition and data protection in digital markets: a joint statement between the CMA and the ICO 2021 (CMA, ICO) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2021)

Content creators and social media endorsements - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2019, updated 2022)

Evidence review of Online Choice Architecture and consumer and competition harm 2022 (CMA) (2022)

Online Choice Architecture: How digital design can harm competition and consumers 2022 (CMA) (2022)

The technology-led transformation of competition and consumer agencies 2022 (CMA) (2022)

Competition and data protection in digital markets: a joint statement between the CMA and the ICO 2021 (CMA, ICO) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2021)

Supporting growth and unlocking the opportunities of AI – Competition and Markets Authority (2024)

Overview of the CMA’s provisional approach to implement the new Digital Markets competition regime - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2024)

Competition Act 1998 cases in the regulated sectors – Digital markets GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (updated 2023)

Trends in Digital Markets: a CMA horizon scanning report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2023)

CMA-Ofcom joint statement on online safety and competition - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2022)

Competition and data protection in digital markets: a joint statement between the CMA and the ICO 2021 (CMA, ICO) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2021)

Content creators and social media endorsements - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2019, updated 2022)

Evidence review of Online Choice Architecture and consumer and competition harm 2022 (CMA) (2022)

Online Choice Architecture: How digital design can harm competition and consumers 2022 (CMA) (2022)

The technology-led transformation of competition and consumer agencies 2022 (CMA) (2022)

Competition and data protection in digital markets: a joint statement between the CMA and the ICO 2021 (CMA, ICO) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (2021)

Financial Conduct Authority

Ten Years of FCA innovation: impact and opportunity - October 2024 (2024)

FCA finds crypto ownership continues to rise as it delivers plans to regulate crypto | FCA (2024)

FCA cracks down on illegal finfluencers | FCA (2024)

Navigating the UK's Digital Regulation Landscape: Where are we headed? | FCA (2024)

The growth gap: a literature review of regulation and growth | FCA (2014)

PS24/12: Digital Securities Sandbox joint Policy Statement and Final Guidance | FCA (2024)

The growth gap: a literature review of regulation and growth | FCA (2024)

Research Note: AI in UK financial services | FCA (2024)

Emerging Technology Research Hub | FCA (2023)

Building better foundations in AI | FCA (2023)

Regulation of Digital Assets in the UK | FCA (2023)

Unstable coins: cryptoassets, financial regulation and preventing financial crime in the emerging market for digital assets | FCA (2020)

Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) | FCA (2020)

Information Commissioner's Office

Our lives, our privacy: the 40 items that shaped 40 years of privacy rights: ICO 40 | 40 (2024)

Data protection is not an excuse when tackling scams and fraud | ICO (2024)

ICO tech futures: quantum technologies | ICO (2024)

Tackling barriers to privacy-enhancing technologies adoption - a PETs project report | ICO (2024)

ICO IoT Citizen Jury Report (2024)

Children’s Data Lives research | ICO (2024)

Tech Horizons Report | ICO (2024)

Public Attitudes on Information Rights (PAIR) (2024)

Age Assurance research | ICO (2023-2024)

ICO tech futures: neurotechnology | ICO (2023)

ICO-CMA joint paper on Harmful Design in Digital Markets | DRCF (2023)

Children’s code research | ICO (2023)

ICO Data Lives Research (2023)

sme-data-essentials-final-evaluation-report.pdf (2023)

Biometrics technologies | ICO (2023)

Understanding the user experience of fertility and period tracking apps (2023)

A Framework for Analysing End to End Encryption in an Online Safety Context (2021)

Ofcom

Online Nation 2024 report (2024)

Four in 10 UK adults encounter misinformation - Ofcom (2024)

Understanding misinformation: an exploration of UK adults’ behaviour and attitudes - Ofcom (2024)

Open letter to UK online service providers regarding Generative AI and chatbots - Ofcom (2024)

Deepfake Defences: Mitigating the Harms of Deceptive Deepfakes (2024)

Red Teaming for GenAI Harms - Revealing the Risks and Rewards for Online Safety (2024)

Online safety: our research agenda - Ofcom (2024)

Online fraud and scams - Ofcom (2023)

Media literacy, immersive technology and the future - Ofcom (2023)

Audience expectations in a digital world (2023)

Mandated interoperability in digital markets - Ofcom (2023)

Media literacy, immersive technology and the future - Ofcom

Object-based media report (2021)

Quantum Communications: new potential for the future of communications - Ofcom (2021)