FCA authorisation cost

FCA Application Fee Categories

Last updated 2026-10-28

Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 2 of 18 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 18 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 16 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 20 figures, never sentences; 141 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): permission -> pricing category -> fee (category 1 £280 to category 10 £225,170 as the FCA states), the category for each common firm type, and the change on the previous year's table

• The median published figure is £8,450 across 20 readings, with the middle half between £1,130 and £56,300. (FCA Application Fee Categories: every row, with its source)
• 2 of 18 providers read publish a price at all; 16 publish none. (FCA Application Fee Categories: every row, with its source)
• The cheapest published figure is £280, by FCA: authorisation and registration application fees. (FCA: authorisation and registration application fees)
• The dearest published figure is £225,170, by FCA: authorisation and registration application fees. (FCA: authorisation and registration application fees)