Firm status
Authorised, no longer authorised, or status amendments.
Official data source
FCA Register monitoring
Authorisation, permissions and firm status for regulated financial services firms.
SoonCoverage: UKPart of Company Watch
Why monitor this register?
The FCA Register lists firms and individuals authorised to provide regulated financial services in the UK. Status changes can affect whether a firm may legally operate, onboard clients or hold client money.
Registry Radar tracks FCA records linked to your Company and Organisation Watches — useful for due diligence, supplier checks and ongoing compliance monitoring.
Monitoring
What Registry Radar watches for
These are the fca record changes that most often matter to our customers.
Permissions
Changes to regulated activities a firm may perform.
Trading names
New or removed names used in the market.
Approved individuals
Key individual changes where published on the register.
Also detects: Permissions, trading names, firm status, individuals
Signals
Example alerts you might receive
- Critical
Authorisation withdrawn
FCA status changed for a watched financial services firm.
- Important
Permission variation
Regulated activities were added or removed on the register.
- Change
Trading name added
A new customer-facing name appears on the FCA record.
Who uses this source?
- Compliance teams
- Professional services firms
- Investors
- Charities with regulated partners
Common questions
Do you monitor individuals on the FCA Register?
Where individual records are linked to watched firms, material changes can surface as Signals. Firm-level monitoring is the primary use case today.
Is FCA monitoring included on Company Watch?
Yes. Company Watch can connect Companies House, Gazette, FCA and sanctions sources on a single Watch for cross-register visibility.
Related
Connected registers
Put FCA changes on your radar
Create a Watch, connect FCA Register to the registers that matter, and receive plain-English Signals when the public record changes.