Your guide to regulated financial services data
Your guide to navigating the FCA Register database — patterns, movements, and what they mean.
Can You Search the FCA Register by Company Size?
A practical guide to searching FCA-regulated firms by company size using FCA data, Companies House, headcount, adviser counts and enrichment signals.
How to Search the FCA Register by Company Type
The FCA Register is useful for checking known firms, but not for finding categories like IFAs, wealth managers, hedge funds or payment firms. Here is why company type search needs enrichment.
How to Monitor Appointed Representative Changes on the FCA Register
A practical guide for compliance and monitoring teams tracking appointed representative and principal-firm relationships on the FCA Register.
FCA Register Checks: What Compliance Teams Should Track
Learn which FCA Register data fields compliance teams should monitor, what changes may trigger review, and how watchlists and alerts support repeatable checks.
How to Build an FCA Compliance Monitoring Plan
A practical guide to building an FCA compliance monitoring plan that combines risk priorities, FCA Register checks, Companies House data, watchlists and alerts.
How to Use Data to Identify IFA Firms That May Be Approaching Succession or Sale
Identify IFA firms that may be approaching succession or sale using director age, ownership, Companies House, FCA and website signals.
Best Deal Sourcing Platforms to Find Financial Advice Firms
Compare deal sourcing platforms for finding financial advice, IFA & wealth management acquisition targets, from broad private company databases to specialist FCA-enriched tools like Distos.
How to Be Alerted When New Firms Join the FCA Register
Learn how to monitor the FCA Register for newly authorised firms, new appointed representatives, permission changes and other firm updates.
How Investment Platforms Can Find FCA Regulated Firms to Target
Learn how investment platforms can use FCA Register data and enrichment to identify, segment and prioritise adviser firms, wealth managers and intermediaries.