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FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPs

Check whether a firm appears on Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s register, with its status, licence number and activities. Institutions on it that also hold a BIC show their licences on their own page.

888
Institutions
Active · plus 2,031 inactive
153
Hold a BIC
17% of institutions
888
On a tracked register
100% of institutions
374
LEI mapped
42% of institutions
888
Licence number published
100% of institutions

FCA-PSD at a glance

Every row is the same 888 institutions, split by one attribute

Type

  • Payments & e-money 888 · 100%

Identification

Regulation level

LEI

  • LEI mapped 374 · 42%
  • No LEI mapped 514 · 58%
View as table
AttributeInstitutionsShare
Type
Payments & e-money888100%
Identification
BIC and a register licence15317%
Register only, no BIC73583%
Regulation level
Prudential licence38143%
Small-firm registration50757%
LEI
LEI mapped37442%
No LEI mapped51458%

An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.

Retrieved 25 September 2026

Institutions on FCA-PSD

The first 25 of the 888 institutions with an active licence or registration on FCA-PSD, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first.

See all 888 institutions on FCA-PSD →

See the 2,031 institutions marked inactive on FCA-PSD →

What this register publishes

Check what FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPs records before relying on a status: fields vary from one register to another.

Fields published

Share of the 3,129 licences and registrations on the register, as at 25 September 2026

Licence numbers
100% of licences
Registration dates
28.4% of licences
End dates
71.6% of licences
Inactive entries
Published
Activities
Published
LEI
Matched by Elucidate for 18.8% of the register’s records

Limits of this register

  • A small-firm registration is a lighter regime than a full licence.
  • FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPs publishes cancelled and withdrawn licences. The directory keeps them, marked inactive on the register, as published by the register.

Licences by class

FCA-PSD lists licences and registrations in 2 classes.

Licences by class

Licence and registration records, active and inactive, by the class the register gives

  • Payment Institution2,985
  • Account Information Service Provider144

Institutions on FCA-PSD that hold a BIC

Of the 888 institutions on FCA-PSD, 153 hold a BIC in Swift’s directory. Their licences on this register are shown on their page.

See all 153 institutions that hold a BIC on FCA-PSD →

Licences marked inactive, by year

FCA-PSD marks 2,031 institutions inactive, as published by the register: all their licences or registrations on it have ended.

Inactive licences by year

Year the licence ended, or the firm became inactive on the register

  • 20093
  • 201017
  • 2011120
  • 2012247
  • 2013320
  • 2014157
  • 2015138
  • 2016153
  • 2017107
  • 2018359
  • 2019246
  • 202043
  • 202133
  • 202242
  • 202357
  • 202487
  • 202566
  • 202645
See all 2,031 inactive institutions on FCA-PSD →

Groups with several institutions on the register

Nine corporate groups have two or more institutions on FCA-PSD, according to GLEIF consolidation records.

Sources & method

An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page. Institutions come from Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory and from the public registers of financial regulators; a register record joins an institution that holds a BIC only through a shared LEI, never by name alone.

Institutions without a BIC are not screened against sanctions lists. An institution missing from this register is not necessarily unregulated.

Read the methodology →

Sources for this page

  • FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPs—Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) · register ↗ retrieved 25 September 2026
  • Data file—download ↗

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