Transparency Manifesto

How FirmTracer Works

We believe regulatory data should be instantly accessible, permanently archived, and fully transparent. Here is exactly where our data comes from and how we process it.

Last database sync: 15 Mar 2026, 18:38 UTC

Official Data Sources

We do not accept user-submitted data. Every record on FirmTracer is pulled directly from official government registrars via automated pipelines.

FCA Financial Services Register

The primary source for all authorised firms, their status, permissions, and key registered individuals.

Update Frequency: Nightly (02:00 UTC)

Endpoints: /Firm/{frn}

View on FCA

Companies House

Provides underlying corporate structure, incorporation dates, official registered addresses, and company status.

Update Frequency: Nightly (03:00 UTC)

Endpoints: /company/{id}

View on Companies House

FCA Enforcement Notices

We download, archive, and analyze official Final Notices, Prohibition Orders, and Censure publications permanently.

Update Frequency: Nightly (02:30 UTC)

Storage: Cloudflare R2 Bucket

View on FCA

Data Methodology

Firm Matching

FCA firms are matched to their corporate entity via the specific Companies House Number returned directly by the FCA API payload. We rely strictly on the regulator's assigned linkage rather than fuzzy name matching.

Enforcement Linkage

Enforcement actions are linked against Firm Reference Numbers (FRN) identified in the penalty documents. Unresolved historical actions lacking strict FRNs are stored globally.

Completeness Scoring

Firm profiles display a dynamically assigned completenessScore reflecting the breadth of ingested fields (e.g. Website, Trading Names, SIC Codes). Profiles must breach a minimum completeness threshold before becoming publicly indexed to prevent thin-page inflation.

Current Limitations

Individual Prohibition Orders

While major Firm Enforcements are archived reliably, unstructured prohibition orders banning specific private individuals remain partially indexed as we train extraction models.

Permission Details

Top-level business authorizations are fully supported, but the nested granular sub-permissions (e.g., specific derivative asset classes allowed) are currently simplified or omitted pending Phase 2 data expansions.

Non-UK Jurisdictions (Phase 3+)

FirmTracer is currently strictly scoped to the United Kingdom jurisdiction. All cross-border flags relate exclusively to external entities encountering UK enforcement action.

Public Pipeline Audit Log

We operate transparently. Below is the live immutable log of our backend data ingestion workers mapped directly from admin_data.scrape_log.

Job Name	Started At	Status	Updated	Failed	Duration
db-keepalive	15 Mar 2026, 18:38 UTC	Success	0	0	0.1s
db-keepalive	15 Mar 2026, 12:52 UTC	Success	0	0	0.1s
J05-ai-summariser	15 Mar 2026, 08:58 UTC	Partial	10	10	-
J05-ai-summariser	15 Mar 2026, 08:37 UTC	Failed	0	20	-
J05-ai-summariser	15 Mar 2026, 08:24 UTC	Failed	0	20	-
J05-ai-summariser	15 Mar 2026, 08:03 UTC	Partial	12	8	-
db-keepalive	15 Mar 2026, 06:56 UTC	Success	0	0	0.1s
J05-ai-summariser	15 Mar 2026, 05:28 UTC	Success	0	0	-
cross-border-conflict-scan	15 Mar 2026, 05:17 UTC	Success	0	0	2.0s
companies-house-sync	15 Mar 2026, 05:01 UTC	Success	25	0	100.2s
fca-enforcement-scrape	15 Mar 2026, 04:55 UTC	Success	0	0	8.6s
fca-register-sync	15 Mar 2026, 04:35 UTC	Success	0	0	0.2s
fca-enforcement-scrape	15 Mar 2026, 02:40 UTC	Failed	0	0	0.0s
J05-ai-summariser	15 Mar 2026, 02:15 UTC	Success	1	0	-
db-keepalive	15 Mar 2026, 02:13 UTC	Success	0	0	0.1s
db-keepalive	14 Mar 2026, 18:37 UTC	Success	0	0	0.1s
db-keepalive	14 Mar 2026, 12:49 UTC	Success	0	0	0.1s
J05-ai-summariser	14 Mar 2026, 09:26 UTC	Failed	0	1	-
J05-ai-summariser	14 Mar 2026, 09:21 UTC	Failed	0	1	-
J05-ai-summariser	14 Mar 2026, 09:17 UTC	Failed	0	1	-