CySEC and FINMA Financial License Scraper

Aggregate Cyprus CySEC and Swiss FINMA financial license registers into a single normalized dataset — ~2,370 records covering investment firms, banks, portfolio managers, trustees, FinTech licensees, and more. Built for KYC/AML compliance, MiFID-passport verification, and brokerage intelligence.

Live sources (currently active):

Source	Coverage	Format	Records
CySEC active investment firms	Cypriot-licensed CIFs	HTML cards	~250
CySEC former / revoked	Historical and revoked CIFs	HTML cards	~140
FINMA banks and securities firms	Swiss licensed banks, SDs	XLSX	~270
FINMA portfolio managers and trustees	FINMA-supervised PMs	XLSX	~1,490
FINMA FinTech licensees	FinTech license holders	XLSX	~100
FINMA insurance companies	Swiss insurance entities	XLSX	~120

Note on MFSA: The Malta Financial Services Authority source is listed in the actor title but is not currently live. MFSA's registry is Cloudflare-protected and is scheduled for a future release. The current actor covers CySEC and FINMA only — do not run with regulators: ["MFSA"] and expect results.

What does the CySEC and FINMA Financial License Scraper do?

CySEC pages are scraped live each run from the official CySEC investment firm register. FINMA data is pulled from official XLSX files that FINMA publishes and updates regularly. Both sources are normalized into the same output schema with consistent field names, so you can join or filter across jurisdictions without schema translation.

What data does it extract?

Field	Type	Description
source_regulator	string	CySEC or FINMA
registry_number	string	License or registry number
firm_name	string	Full legal entity name
license_type	string	License type (e.g. CIF (Investment Firm), Bank, Portfolio Manager / Trustee, FinTech Licence)
license_status	string	active, revoked, withdrawn, former, or unknown
license_issue_date	string	Date license was granted (ISO format where available)
license_revocation_date	string	Date license was terminated, if applicable
services_authorised	array	Authorised investment, financial or insurance services. Included for FINMA portfolio managers, trustees and insurers on every run; for CySEC firms when includeDetail is on
financial_instruments	array	Authorised MiFID financial instruments. CySEC firms only, when includeDetail is on
registered_office	string	Registered office address
country	string	Country of registration (Cyprus or Switzerland)
regulatory_actions	array	Regulatory actions (fines, suspensions, enforcement notices)
source_url	string	URL to the regulator's source page

How to use it

All active and revoked CySEC and FINMA firms:

{
  "regulators": ["CySEC", "FINMA"],
  "maxItems": 0
}

Active CySEC firms only:

{
  "regulators": ["CySEC"],
  "includeRevoked": false,
  "maxItems": 500
}

FINMA FinTech licensees:

{
  "regulators": ["FINMA"],
  "licenseType": "FinTech",
  "maxItems": 0
}

CySEC firms with their authorised services and MiFID instruments:

{
  "regulators": ["CySEC"],
  "includeDetail": true,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
regulators	array	["CySEC", "FINMA"]	Which regulators to crawl
licenseType	string	""	Filter by license type substring (case-insensitive)
firmName	string	""	Filter by firm name substring
includeRevoked	boolean	true	Include revoked / voluntarily surrendered licenses
includeDetail	boolean	false	Add each CySEC firm's authorised services and MiFID financial instruments. Opens one extra page per CySEC record, so the run takes longer and those records bill a premium event (see Pricing). FINMA services are always included and are unaffected.
maxItems	integer	10	Max records. 0 = unlimited.

Use cases

• KYC and AML compliance — Verify counterparty license status and jurisdiction before onboarding. The license_status field distinguishes active from revoked; regulatory_actions surfaces enforcement history.
• MiFID-passport research — Cross-reference CySEC-licensed CIFs against EU jurisdiction registers to track firms using Cyprus as a passporting base for EU market access.
• Data enrichment with LEI and GLEIF — Join the output on firm_name and country against the GLEIF LEI database to add Legal Entity Identifiers for cross-registry matching. Both registries use official legal entity names, making name-based joining tractable for most firms.
• Brokerage intelligence — Monitor new CySEC entrants and license revocations to track competitive moves in the Cyprus investment firm market. The license_issue_date field supports recency filters.
• Market analysis — Track FinTech licensing trends in Switzerland by pulling FINMA FinTech records over time. The ~100 current licensees represent the full universe of FINMA-supervised FinTech firms.

Pricing

This actor uses a price coefficient of 3.0 on the standard pay-per-record profile — reflecting the compliance-grade data and multi-source normalization. A full run of 2,370 records costs approximately $7.20 plus $0.10 per run start.

includeDetail is the one option that changes the price. Every CySEC record it enriches opens that firm's own register page, and each of those records carries a premium event on top of its record charge. Everything else stays at the base rate: FINMA's services_authorised rides a file the run already downloads, so it is included on every run at no extra cost, and a run with includeDetail off is priced exactly as before.

FAQ

Is MFSA available? Not currently. MFSA (Malta Financial Services Authority) is Cloudflare-protected. It is scheduled for a future release. Running with regulators: ["MFSA"] will return no results. The current actor delivers CySEC and FINMA data.

Is this data public? Yes. CySEC and FINMA publish their registers for public access. The actor reads from the official regulator websites and XLSX files — no login required.

What export formats are available? Apify supports JSON, CSV, and Excel export from the dataset view. Array fields (services_authorised, financial_instruments, regulatory_actions) are preserved as JSON arrays in JSON export and flattened in CSV.

Which records carry authorised services? FINMA portfolio managers, trustees and insurers carry them on every run. CySEC firms carry them when includeDetail is on. FINMA banks, securities firms and FinTech licensees are published without a service list, so the field is empty for those. financial_instruments is a MiFID concept and applies to CySEC firms only.