FCA Register · Daily Polling
The FCA register,
as a feed you can subscribe to.
FRN Watch checks every firm on your watchlist daily, surfaces material changes — permissions, requirements, disciplinary action — and gives your compliance team an audit-grade record of who saw what, and when.
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Pending alerts
4 firms · 3 unack'd
Example Bank Ltd000001
Disciplinary
Disciplinary
Acknowledge →
Example Invest Ltd000002
Requirement
Requirement
Acknowledge →
Example Payments Ltd000003
Permissions
Permissions
Acknowledge →
Example Holdings plc000004
Trading name
Trading name
A. Reviewer, 09:14
Example Wealth Ltd000005
Address
Address
B. Reviewer, yesterday
01 · Permissions diff
See what the firm can do — and what just changed.
Most monitoring tools tell you the firm's status string changed. We tell you which specific permitted activities were added, removed, or limited — line by line, with the FCA-issued effective date.
- PSD2All payment services activities, mapped to art. 1(a)–(h)
- EMIE-money issuance status and any limitations
- MiFIDInvestment activities, by scope and client type
- LendingConsumer credit and ESOL with their specific scopes
Example Payments Ltd · FRN 000003 · Illustrative
−Issuing electronic moneyREMOVED
·Providing payment initiation servicesUNCHANGED
·Providing account information servicesUNCHANGED
·Execution of payment transactionsUNCHANGED
+Money remittance — limited to corporate clientsADDED
02 · Audit trail
Evidence your auditor will actually read.
Every check, every diff, every acknowledgement — timestamped, attributed to a named workspace user, and exportable as a PDF for your next supervision visit.
- Per-firmPDF export: status, requirements, ack history
- WorkspacePer-user attribution on every acknowledgement
- ResidencyUK data residency
- RetentionAudit entries retained for the life of the account
Audit trail · Illustrative entries
Today · 14:21 (BST)Acknowledged
Compliance reviewer
“Reviewed scope; no action required.”
Recorded against your workspace
Today · 10:00 (BST)System check
System · FCA register poll
Detected change — Permissions: 1 added.
Poll job · firms checked
03 · Team workflows
Built for a team sharing one watchlist.
Two of you might see the same Final Notice land at 08:02. The one who acknowledges first locks the record — the other sees it's handled, with the comment, sender, and timestamp.
- RealtimeAcks broadcast to your team as they happen
- AssignHand off any alert with a one-line note
- EmailDaily digest of everything unack'd
Live · Illustrative · Example Bank Ltd
AR
A. Reviewer is reviewing — 08:08
“Holding ack until I’ve escalated internally.”
BR
B. Reviewer assigned to A. Reviewer — 08:04
“Take this one — disciplinary entry on the register.”
SYS
System detected change — 08:02
Disciplinary entry added to register
FAQ
Questions compliance teams ask first.
- What does FRN Watch do?
- FRN Watch monitors the FCA Financial Services Register for the firms on your watchlist. It polls the register every day and emails your compliance team when something material changes — so you find out within a day instead of at your next quarterly review.
- How often do you check the FCA register?
- Once every day. Each firm on your watchlist is checked against the previous day's snapshot, and any material change is surfaced on the next poll.
- What kinds of changes does it detect?
- Authorisation status, Part 4A permissions (added, removed, or limited — line by line), requirements (VREQs, OIREQs), disciplinary and enforcement action, consumer warnings, appointed-representative and principal-firm changes, and identifiers like trading names and addresses. See what we check.
- Can I monitor appointed representatives and their principal firms?
- Yes. Add the FRNs you care about and FRN Watch tracks appointed-representative status and principal-firm changes alongside permissions and disciplinary history.
- How do I add the firms I want to watch?
- Upload a CSV of Firm Reference Numbers (FRNs), or search and add firms individually. There is no integration work — setup takes a few minutes.
- How is this different from checking the FCA register myself?
- Manual checks happen monthly or quarterly, leaving a gap where a counterparty can lose a permission or face disciplinary action unnoticed. FRN Watch checks daily, names exactly what changed, and keeps a timestamped audit trail of who acknowledged it. See how the approaches compare.
- Where is my data stored?
- Customer data is stored in a UK / EU region and processed under UK GDPR. We are early-stage and not yet SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified — we say so plainly on our security page rather than imply otherwise.
- How much does FRN Watch cost?
- You can start a 14-day trial with no credit card. We're working with early customers on pricing — book a walkthrough and we'll talk through what fits your watchlist.
- Is FRN Watch a substitute for our own compliance controls?
- No. FRN Watch automates monitoring of the public FCA register and gives you a record of it. It supports your compliance processes; it does not replace your own internal controls or judgement.
Get started
Hand over the register,
keep your Monday mornings.
Upload a CSV of FRNs you want to watch. We poll the FCA register daily and surface any changes — permissions, requirements, disciplinary action — to your inbox.