Whether you’re a consumer credit firm, investment firm or other financial services provider, you should prepare your application well in advance. Here’s a quick guide.

It may take you some time to gather all the information needed for your application. Before getting started, check that the services you intend to carry on are regulated activities that require our authorisation.

Business Plan

For the first step, prepare your business plan and also send us your request. We will contact you as soon as possible. Many applications for authorisation are delayed because the business plan is not detailed enough.

Our commitments to you

When you apply for authorisation, you need to provide complete and detailed information about your business – for example, its structure, key individuals and financial resources. We offer you 5 commitments in return.

We will tell you as soon as your application has been assigned to a case officer, who will be your single point of contact from then on.

We will acknowledge any communication from you within 2 working days.

We will give a substantive response (or an indication of when this can be expected) to any communication from you within 10 working days.

We will give you clear deadlines if we ask for any information from you.

We will give you an update on the progress of your application at least once a month.

Failure to provide requested information may lead to delays in assessing your application.