FCA authorisation cost

Beyond the FCA fee

What it costs to have an FCA application prepared

Updated

Most firms pay an adviser to prepare the business plan and supporting material. That price is almost never published.

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What we found

No published preparation fee

We read 49 pages from compliance consultancies and law firms on 28 October 2026. They restate the FCA's own fee or ask you to enquire; none prints its own price for preparing an application.

Source: FCA application fee categories: every row, with its source

What the FCA asks for

The firm-type pages ask for a business plan and other supporting material with the application, submitted on the FCA's Connect system.

Source: FCA: apply to become a consumer credit broker

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Sources

This site's own dataset, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

  1. FCA: authorisation and registration application fees
  2. FCA: authorisation application fee
  3. FCA: EMI and payment institution application fees
  4. FCA Handbook FEES 3 Annex 1: authorisation fees payable
  5. FCA Handbook FEES 3.3
  6. FCA Handbook FEES 3 Annex 8
  7. FCA PS22/1: authorisation application fees, new structure
  8. FCA PS22/1 (PDF)

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