Authorisations Recorded as Withdrawn

Entries whose authorisation ESMA's register records as ended, newest first. The register gives the fact and the date. It does not give a reason, and neither do we.

A withdrawn authorisation is a record, not an allegation. An authorisation can end because a firm merged, wound itself up, surrendered a permission it no longer used, or because the authority decided it should. The register does not record which, so nothing on this page distinguishes between them and no inference is available from the fact of appearing here.

It is also not a fraud list. Nothing on this page is joined to the enforcement or fraud records elsewhere on this site, and no firm here is being reported for anything. 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.

2,220 of 13,915 entries · 31 member states · most recent date on the record 31 December 2500 · 1 carries no withdrawal date · largest by state: Germany 460 · France 273 · Luxembourg 206 · Spain 196 · Poland 143 · Austria 119

Why These Are Published At All

Because the alternative is worse. A register page that showed only current authorisations would answer “is this firm authorised?” with silence for every firm that once was, and silence reads as “never heard of them”. A reader who was given a licence number by a firm needs to be able to see that the number existed and that the register now records it as ended.

The date matters for the same reason. An authorisation that ended in 2013 and a firm still quoting it in 2026 are two different facts, and only the first of them is on this page.

The register’s two fields can disagree, and we show both. One entry carries a withdrawal date with no status recorded against it, and one is marked withdrawn with no date. Neither is resolved by us into the reading that looks tidier — how we handle a source that contradicts itself.

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.

This document has been drafted using material downloaded from ESMA's website. ESMA does not endorse this publication and in no way is liable for copyright or other intellectual property rights infringements nor for any damages caused to third parties through this publication.

Source: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) union public register (esma_registers_upreg), read on 2026-09-05. 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, and ESMA states that information reported by a national authority “will not be immediately displayed” — so a firm can be authorised, and listed nationally, while absent here.