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FCA Systems Outage

We have received the following update from the FCA;

As communicated on 26 October, we will incrementally publish Directory Persons data from solo-regulated firms from 14 December. In preparation for this, there will be outages for the following systems between 6pm, 11 December and 8am 14 December 2020.  

  • Financial Services Register;
  • The Application Programming Interface (API); and
  • Connect – in addition, we will be restricting Directory Persons submissions via Connect from 5pm on Thursday, 10 December. 

We will be adding outage notification messages to Connect (Log-in page and ‘Latest News’ section in the application), API and the FS Register.

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