FCA compliance monitoring software for financial services
Distos turns the FCA Register into an AI-enriched monitoring platform for compliance and regulatory teams that need to track firms, permissions, statuses and appointed representative relationships.
Our solution
From FCA Register records to regulatory compliance monitoring
The public FCA Register is essential for checking whether a firm or individual is regulated. But it was built for verification, not ongoing compliance monitoring.
You need to know the firm name or FRN before you can look anything up, which makes it hard to monitor changes across a portfolio, supplier base, appointed representative network or wider market.
Distos closes that gap by turning FCA Register data into a discovery and monitoring platform for financial services compliance teams.
Benefits
Built for compliance teams monitoring FCA-regulated firms
Monitor FCA firm changes
Track changes to FCA-regulated firms, permissions, statuses and records that matter to your compliance workflow.
Screen regulated relationships
Check and segment firms, appointed representatives, principal firms, partners and third parties using enriched FCA data.
Prioritise regulatory risk
Use permissions, activities, firm structure and status changes to focus review time on the records that need attention.
Build audit-ready lists
Create structured views and exports for monitoring, internal review, supplier checks and compliance reporting workflows.
FCA monitoring
Monitor FCA Register changes without manual checking
Distos helps compliance teams monitor FCA-regulated firms and people without checking the public Register one record at a time.
Track firms you know
Create monitored lists for firms, appointed representatives, suppliers, partners or portfolio companies.
Discover firms to watch
Find regulated firms that match a risk theme, permission profile, sector or relationship type.
Permission changes
Track permission, status and firm profile changes
Turn FCA permissions, regulatory statuses and activity data into practical monitoring signals for financial services compliance workflows.
Monitor permissions
Spot changes in permissions, regulated activities and firm authorisation profiles.
Surface status changes
Track firm status, new authorisations and other Register movements that may require review.
AR oversight
Monitor appointed representative and principal firm relationships
Distos helps teams understand and monitor appointed representative networks, principal firms and related FCA firm structures.
Map AR networks
Identify appointed representatives, principal firms and network relationships across regulated markets.
Watch relationship movement
Monitor additions, removals and structural changes that may affect compliance oversight.
Reporting
Create compliance-ready views and exports
Turn enriched FCA Register data into structured lists for monitoring, review, reporting and internal compliance workflows.
Build monitored lists
Create defined populations for firms, people, networks, suppliers or market segments.
Export for workflows
Use structured FCA data for internal review, CRM enrichment, GRC tools and reporting processes.
BLOGS
Insights on FCA data for compliance monitoring
Guides to using FCA Register data for regulatory compliance monitoring, firm screening, appointed representative oversight and commercial research.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything compliance and regulatory teams need to know about using Distos for FCA compliance monitoring and firm oversight.
Can Distos help with FCA compliance monitoring?
Yes. Distos helps compliance and regulatory teams monitor FCA-regulated firms, permissions, statuses, appointed representative relationships and other FCA Register data points.
How is Distos different from the public FCA Register?
The public FCA Register is mainly for checking firms you already know by firm name, FRN, individual or trading name. Distos is built for discovery, segmentation and ongoing monitoring across many firms.
Can I monitor FCA permission changes?
Yes. Distos helps teams track and segment firms by permissions, activities, regulatory status and other enriched FCA data points that can support compliance monitoring.
Can Distos help monitor appointed representatives?
Yes. Distos helps identify appointed representatives, principal firms and related networks so compliance teams can understand and monitor regulated relationships.
Can I use Distos for supplier or third-party screening?
Yes. Distos can help compliance teams screen and monitor FCA-regulated suppliers, partners, introducers, firms and other regulated third-party relationships.
Is Distos a replacement for legal or regulatory advice?
No. Distos provides data, monitoring and research workflows. It does not replace legal advice, regulatory advice or your firm's internal compliance judgement.
Can I export monitoring lists from Distos?
Yes. Distos supports structured list and export workflows for monitoring, review, reporting, CRM enrichment and internal compliance processes.
Who is this compliance monitoring solution for?
This page is for compliance teams, regulatory teams, risk teams, operations teams and commercial teams that need better visibility of FCA-regulated firms and people.
What is financial services compliance monitoring?
Financial services compliance monitoring is the ongoing process of tracking firms, people, permissions, statuses, relationships and other signals that may affect regulatory oversight. Distos supports this with enriched FCA Register data.
