UK FCA Regulated Firm Verification
Verify any UK firm or individual against the FCA Financial Services Register in one API call.
What it does
Look up any firm or individual on the UK Financial Conduct Authority's Financial Services Register. Returns current authorisation status, permissions granted, appointed-representative relationships, enforcement history, and registered office. Built for fintechs, banks, and compliance teams that need fast programmatic verification without paying enterprise KYC suite prices.
Built for
- • Fintechs and banks doing partner / introducer / customer onboarding
- • Compliance teams at SME professional services firms
- • Marketplaces verifying financial professionals
- • Consumer apps doing point-of-purchase advisor verification
Data sources
- • FCA Financial Services Register(updates live)
- • Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) public register(updates live)
How we compare
| Provider | Entry price | Where they fall short |
|---|---|---|
| SmartSearch | ~£200/month | Bundled into a full KYC suite, no standalone FCA-only tier |
| Credas | ~£250/month | Identity-verification focused, FCA lookup is incidental |
Reliability you can build on
Built on the same AWS infrastructure that runs UK banks and government services. Engineered for the kind of always-on availability your compliance workflow expects.
Target 99.9% uptime
Stack uptime is governed by AWS API Gateway (99.95%), Lambda (99.95%) and DynamoDB (99.99%) SLAs. We target 99.9% end-to-end, which works out at roughly 8 hours of downtime per year, worst case.
Hosted in London (eu-west-2)
Single-region UK hosting for low latency to UK customers and predictable data residency. Median response under 250ms; 5-minute response cache absorbs upstream blips.
Idempotent + cached
Repeat lookups within 5 minutes are served from cache, so transient FCA upstream issues don't propagate to you. Bulk endpoint runs with bounded concurrency to never overrun the source.
Contractual SLA on Pro
Pro plan includes a 99.9% uptime commitment, priority support with response in under 4 hours (UK business hours), and a private Slack channel for incident escalation.
Live status visibility lands with the public dashboard. Full incident history available to Pro customers on request.
Pricing
14-day free trial on all paid plans. Cancel any time.
- ✓500 firm or individual lookups / month
- ✓FCA + SRA cross-reference
- ✓Unified FCA+SRA name search
- ✓14-day free trial
- ✓Email support (24h response)
- ✓5,000 firm or individual lookups / month
- ✓Branded PDF audit certificates
- ✓Daily change feed for up to 50 monitored firms
- ✓365-day compliance audit log
- ✓Email support (12h response)
- ✓25,000 lookups / month
- ✓Branded PDF audit certificates
- ✓Daily change feed for up to 1,000 monitored firms
- ✓365-day compliance audit log
- ✓Priority support, response in under 4h (UK business hours)
- ✓99.9% uptime SLA
- ✓Private Slack support channel
Why this pricing?
At £19/month, the Starter tier sits below the threshold where most B2B buyers spend time evaluating alternatives. You get a normalised JSON response, sensible status semantics for complex regulated entities, cross-reference against the SRA register for solicitor-led firms, and consistent uptime backed by AWS. Larger KYC and AML suites such as SmartSearch and Credas start at £200 to £500 per month and bundle in identity verification and broader screening you may not need.
Missing something?
Need a field we don't return, a regulator we don't cover, or a workflow our pricing tiers don't fit? Tell us. We're small enough to ship custom changes quickly: sometimes free, sometimes for a one-off fee, always with a fast yes/no on whether we can do it.