Financial Services Register offline this weekend ahead of upgrade

Enhanced register goes live on Monday

Jenna Brown
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The regulator’s Financial Services Register will be offline this weekend as the system undergoes significant enhancement ahead of its relaunch on Monday (27 July).

The register will be unavailable over the weekend of 25/26 July. The Financial Conduct Authority said the enhanced register would have a "new look and will include improvements we have made in response to user feedback". The Application Programming Interface (API) will also be out of service during 25/26 July and users will not be able to request data. The FCA said firms will need to update any links they have to pages on the current Financial Services Register, other than those to the homepage, once the enhanced register launches. All current links will be redirected to the enhanc...

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