The Register of Authorised Firms

Every entry on the public registers we hold — what each firm is authorised to do, by whom, since when, and what that authorisation does not cover.

These are different registers and they do not certify the same thing. Every entry below names the register it came from. What that register is a record of:

European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) union public register — MiFID / AIFMD / UCITS investment firms — NOT the MiCA crypto register.
Financial Services Agency of Japan — List of Registered Crypto-asset Exchange Service Providers — Payment Services Act registration of crypto-asset exchange service providers — a full business authorisation, NOT an anti-money-laundering enrolment.
FINTRAC — Money Services Business Registry — Anti-money-laundering registration ONLY — explicitly not a licence.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas — Directory of registered Virtual Asset Service Providers — Circular 1108 VASP licence — securities-style crypto offerings fall to a different regulator entirely.
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) — interim MiCA register, crypto-asset service providers (CASPS.csv) — MiCA Title V crypto-asset service providers — NOT the MiFID investment-firm register.
Financial Services Agency of Japan — List of registered Financial Instruments Business Operators — Financial Instruments Business Operators (securities, retail FX, advisers, managers) — NOT the crypto-asset list.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Information about Registered Investment Advisers (Form ADV data) — SEC-registered investment advisers — NOT broker-dealers, NOT state-registered advisers, NOT exempt reporting advisers.
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Financial Data for Futures Commission Merchants — CFTC-registered futures commission merchants and retail foreign exchange dealers.
Autorité des marchés financiers — Liste blanche des PSAN (data.gouv.fr) — France: PSAN registrations/licences and MiCA authorisations, with removal reasons.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — MSB Registrant Search — FinCEN MSB self-registration — AML only, NOT a licence.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission — Financial Services Licensee dataset (data.gov.au) — Australian Financial Services licensees (current licences only).
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) — Cyprus Investment Firms register — Cyprus Investment Firms (MiFID) with CySEC-approved domains.

A permission granted under one regime says nothing about any other, and no entry here is evidence about a firm’s standing in a jurisdiction whose register we do not hold. If the firm you are checking offered you crypto, start with the guided check.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. ESMA publishes that a firm is authorised. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the firm is safe. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. The Financial Services Agency publishes that a provider is registered under the Payment Services Act. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the provider is safe. The Agency's own note on this list adds that it "does not guarantee or endorse the value of these crypto-assets". No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. A FINTRAC listing records anti-money-laundering registration only. FINTRAC states it is not a licence and issues no certificate. It is not a recommendation and not a statement that the business is safe, and it is not permission to provide investment services. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. The BSP publishes that a provider holds a virtual-asset service licence. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the provider is safe. Many holders also hold a separate electronic-money licence and the two sets of permissions must not be merged. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. ESMA publishes that a provider is authorised under MiCA for the services listed. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the provider is safe. MiCA does not cover lending, staking or 'earn' products. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. The Financial Services Agency publishes that an operator is registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act for the business types marked. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the operator is safe. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. SEC registration means a firm has filed Form ADV and is registered as an investment adviser. The SEC does not approve, recommend or vouch for any adviser, and registration is not a statement that the firm is safe or that it may hold your money. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. The CFTC publishes that a firm is registered as an FCM or retail foreign exchange dealer. That is a record of a registration, not a recommendation and not a statement that the firm is safe. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. The AMF publishes that a provider is registered or authorised for the activities listed, and when and why a registration ended. That is a record, not a recommendation and not a statement that the provider is safe. A PSAN registration was an anti-money-laundering registration, not a full licence. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. FinCEN registration is a form a business files itself for anti-money-laundering purposes. FinCEN does not verify, license, approve or endorse registrants, and registration is not permission to offer investments, hold customer funds or trade crypto. Scam sites routinely cite it as if it were a licence. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. An AFS licence records that ASIC authorised a business to provide the financial services its conditions name. It is not a recommendation and not a statement that the business is safe. The snapshot lists current licences only; a cancelled licence simply disappears from it. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

An authorisation is not an endorsement. CySEC records that a firm holds a CIF licence and the domains it approved. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation; CySEC does not approve or recommend any firm or product, and this page does not suggest otherwise. No firm on this page is scored, ranked or assessed by us, there is no green tick anywhere on this site, and lists are ordered alphabetically so that the order cannot be read as a judgement either.

The 12 registers held: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) union public register (13,898) · Financial Services Agency of Japan — List of Registered Crypto-asset Exchange Service Providers (27) · FINTRAC — Money Services Business Registry (8,241) · Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas — Directory of registered Virtual Asset Service Providers (9) · European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) — interim MiCA register, crypto-asset service providers (CASPS.csv) (376) · Financial Services Agency of Japan — List of registered Financial Instruments Business Operators (1,951) · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Information about Registered Investment Advisers (Form ADV data) (17,143) · U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Financial Data for Futures Commission Merchants (75) · Autorité des marchés financiers — Liste blanche des PSAN (data.gouv.fr) (320) · Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — MSB Registrant Search (26,971) · Australian Securities and Investments Commission — Financial Services Licensee dataset (data.gov.au) (6,476) · Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) — Cyprus Investment Firms register (248). Every nation, every register lists the 75 catalogued and what each one certifies; absence from this page is never a finding about a firm.

Held in full but not listed row by row below, because a single page of them would be too large to load: FINTRAC — Money Services Business Registry (8,241) · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Information about Registered Investment Advisers (Form ADV data) (17,143) · Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — MSB Registrant Search (26,971) · Australian Securities and Investments Commission — Financial Services Licensee dataset (data.gov.au) (6,476). Their entries still count in the totals and still appear on company pages that match them.

75,735 entries · 69,214 recorded as current · 6,429 recorded as withdrawn · 92 with no status stated · 36 jurisdictions · 28 categories · 38,751 named permissions · 1,285 branch entries

By Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction whose authority recorded the authorisation. A firm authorised in one may serve clients in others, so this is not a list of where each firm operates.

Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway appear as EEA states rather than EU member states, and one entry is recorded against the United Kingdom. We list each register’s own values rather than a tidier set of our own. Where a register has no home-state concept at all — the FSA’s does not — its entries are grouped under the jurisdiction that keeps the register, which is a grouping of ours and is labelled as such on the page.

By Category

Each register’s own classification, printed as the register writes it. Two ESMA categories are given as bare codes and we leave them that way — expanding an abbreviation we cannot cite would be our claim about how a firm is regulated, not the register’s.

Authorisations That Have Ended

6,429 entries held an authorisation that the register now records as withdrawn, all but one of them with a date. They are listed on every country and category page alongside the current ones, labelled, and collected at authorisations recorded as withdrawn.

The register states that an authorisation ended and when. It does not state why, and we do not infer it. A withdrawal can follow a merger, a voluntary surrender, a wind-down or a decision of the authority, and nothing in this file separates those.

What a Match Here Is Worth

Finding a firm on this page tells you that a named authority authorised a firm of that name to carry on a named activity, and when. That is worth having: it is checkable, it is dated, and it comes from the regulator rather than from the firm.

It does not tell you that the firm contacting you is that firm. A name and a licence number are the easiest things in this industry to copy, and a cloned firm will quote real ones. Compare the website the register records against the site you were sent to, and if they differ, stop.

Not finding a firm here is not a finding either. The registers held cover only the regimes named above. A firm can be legitimately authorised elsewhere, or under a regime we do not hold, and still be absent. Every nation, every register shows which regimes exist and what each one certifies.

The Financial Services Agency publishes that a provider is registered under the Payment Services Act. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the provider is safe. The Agency's own note on this list adds that it "does not guarantee or endorse the value of these crypto-assets".

This content has been edited: the Financial Services Agency's published spreadsheet has been parsed, re-keyed and re-presented. The Agency's own copy is the authoritative one. Financial Services Agency of Japan (金融庁) does not endorse this publication.

Source: Financial Services Agency of Japan — List of Registered Crypto-asset Exchange Service Providers, read on 2026-10-21. Licence: Public Data License 1.0 (PDL 1.0), source citation required — Source: Financial Services Agency website (https://www.fsa.go.jp/en/regulated/licensed/en_kasoutuka.xlsx). The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

A FINTRAC listing records anti-money-laundering registration only. FINTRAC states it is not a licence and issues no certificate. It is not a recommendation and not a statement that the business is safe, and it is not permission to provide investment services.

This content has been edited: FINTRAC's published registry has been parsed, re-keyed and re-presented, and entries with no incorporation details (which include sole proprietors — personal information the licence does not cover) are omitted. FINTRAC's own copy is the authoritative one. Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada does not endorse this publication.

Source: FINTRAC — Money Services Business Registry, read on 2026-10-18. Licence: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

The BSP publishes that a provider holds a virtual-asset service licence. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the provider is safe. Many holders also hold a separate electronic-money licence and the two sets of permissions must not be merged.

This content has been edited: the BSP's one-page PDF has been parsed and re-presented; officer names and personal contact details are not reproduced (only e-mail domains, as the firm's domains). This data can be freely retrieved from the BSP website; the BSP's own copy is the authoritative one. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas does not endorse this publication.

Source: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas — Directory of registered Virtual Asset Service Providers, read on 2026-10-18. Licence: BSP Terms of Use: quotation, copying and commercial redistribution permitted with attribution to the BSP, on condition that recipients are told the content can be freely retrieved from the BSP website and that modifications are clearly identified.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

ESMA publishes that a provider is authorised under MiCA for the services listed. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the provider is safe. MiCA does not cover lending, staking or 'earn' products.

This document has been drafted using material downloaded from ESMA's website European Securities and Markets Authority does not endorse this publication.

Source: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) — interim MiCA register, crypto-asset service providers (CASPS.csv), read on 2026-10-21. Licence: Reproduction authorised provided the source is acknowledged (ESMA legal notice). The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

The Financial Services Agency publishes that an operator is registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act for the business types marked. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation, and not a statement that the operator is safe.

This content has been edited: the Financial Services Agency's published spreadsheet has been parsed, re-keyed and re-presented (full-width characters in names normalised). The Agency's own copy is the authoritative one. Financial Services Agency of Japan (金融庁) does not endorse this publication.

Source: Financial Services Agency of Japan — List of registered Financial Instruments Business Operators, read on 2026-10-18. Licence: Public Data License 1.0 (PDL 1.0), source citation required — Source: Financial Services Agency website (https://www.fsa.go.jp/en/regulated/licensed/fibo.xlsx). The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

SEC registration means a firm has filed Form ADV and is registered as an investment adviser. The SEC does not approve, recommend or vouch for any adviser, and registration is not a statement that the firm is safe or that it may hold your money.

This content has been edited: the SEC's monthly file has been parsed and re-presented. Sole proprietors (natural persons) are omitted and home addresses are withheld. The SEC's own copy and IAPD are authoritative. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not endorse this publication.

Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Information about Registered Investment Advisers (Form ADV data), read on 2026-10-18. Licence: Public information: "may be copied or further distributed by users of the web site without the SEC's permission" (sec.gov website dissemination notice); a work of the U.S. Government, 17 U.S.C. § 105.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

The CFTC publishes that a firm is registered as an FCM or retail foreign exchange dealer. That is a record of a registration, not a recommendation and not a statement that the firm is safe.

This content has been edited: only the firm name, registration category and designated self-regulatory organisation are carried from the CFTC's monthly workbook. Its capital and segregation figures are deliberately not reproduced. The CFTC's own copy is authoritative. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission does not endorse this publication.

Source: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Financial Data for Futures Commission Merchants, read on 2026-10-19. Licence: Public domain: "Government information at the CFTC website is in the public domain. Public domain information may be freely distributed and copied" (CFTC web policy); acknowledgement to the CFTC is requested and given here.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

The AMF publishes that a provider is registered or authorised for the activities listed, and when and why a registration ended. That is a record, not a recommendation and not a statement that the provider is safe. A PSAN registration was an anti-money-laundering registration, not a full licence.

This content has been edited: the AMF's dataset (one row per activity) has been grouped to one entry per AMF number; e-mail and telephone columns are not reproduced. The AMF's own list is authoritative. Autorité des marchés financiers does not endorse this publication.

Source: Autorité des marchés financiers — Liste blanche des PSAN (data.gouv.fr), read on 2026-10-21. Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab). Source: Autorité des marchés financiers; date of last update as published with each entry.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

FinCEN registration is a form a business files itself for anti-money-laundering purposes. FinCEN does not verify, license, approve or endorse registrants, and registration is not permission to offer investments, hold customer funds or trade crypto. Scam sites routinely cite it as if it were a licence.

This content has been edited: FinCEN's full export has been parsed and re-presented. Registrants whose names carry no corporate form are omitted, because the export cannot separate sole proprietors (natural persons) from businesses. FinCEN's own search is authoritative. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of the Treasury does not endorse this publication.

Source: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — MSB Registrant Search, read on 2026-10-18. Licence: Public information; may be distributed or copied (FinCEN site policies). A work of the U.S. Government, 17 U.S.C. § 105.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

An AFS licence records that ASIC authorised a business to provide the financial services its conditions name. It is not a recommendation and not a statement that the business is safe. The snapshot lists current licences only; a cancelled licence simply disappears from it.

This content has been edited: ASIC's weekly snapshot has been parsed and re-presented; licensees whose names carry no corporate form (which include individuals) are omitted and licence-condition text is summarised as two flags. ASIC's Professional Register Search is authoritative. Australian Securities and Investments Commission does not endorse this publication.

Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission — Financial Services Licensee dataset (data.gov.au), read on 2026-10-18. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.

CySEC records that a firm holds a CIF licence and the domains it approved. That is a record of a permission, not a recommendation; CySEC does not approve or recommend any firm or product, and this page does not suggest otherwise.

This content has been amended: CySEC's list and per-firm pages have been parsed and re-presented; former names are split from current names, and telephone, fax and e-mail are not reproduced. CySEC's own register is authoritative. Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission does not endorse this publication.

Source: Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) — Cyprus Investment Firms register, read on 2026-10-18. Licence: Re-use permitted under CySEC's conditions for re-use; source of the information: CySEC.. The authority’s own copy is the authoritative one; ours is a copy of a public file taken on the date shown. A register is published on the authority’s own rhythm and our copy is taken on the date shown, so a firm can hold a current authorisation and still be absent from this page.