Hong Kong SFC Licensed Persons & Registered Institutions Scraper

Verify anyone on the Hong Kong SFC Public Register in seconds. Search licensed corporations, individuals (representatives and responsible officers), registered institutions and executive officers, and get their CE number, regulated activities, licence status, main address, responsible officers, accredited firms, licensing conditions, previous names and public disciplinary actions. Built for KYC, KYB, AML onboarding and financial-sector lead lists.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

CE number & regulated activities Type 1-13 + virtual asset

Responsible officers, conditions & public disciplinary actions

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

What you get

For every match on the Hong Kong SFC Public Register:

• Identity - English and Chinese name, CE number, record type (corporation, individual, registered institution, executive officer)
• Licence - active / inactive status, SFO and AMLO (virtual asset) flags, licence effective date
• Regulated activities - every activity held (Type 1 Dealing in Securities, Type 4 Advising on Securities, Type 9 Asset Management, and so on) with status and dates
• Address - main business address in English and Chinese
• Corporations - responsible officers with their CE numbers, licensing conditions, previous names
• Individuals - current and past accredited firms (principals) with role, activity, date and status
• Risk flags - licensing conditions and public disciplinary actions with press-release links

No result, no charge. You are only billed for real licensee records that are returned. Empty or failed runs cost nothing.

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
KYC / onboarding	Fintech, brokerages and banks verifying a Hong Kong counterparty or adviser
AML / compliance	Teams screening for licence status, conditions and disciplinary history
Lead generation	Sales teams building lists of licensed corporations by regulated activity
Due diligence	Investors and researchers checking who runs a licensed firm

How to use it

1. Enter names or keywords (or exact CE numbers) and choose corporations or individuals.
2. Or set a regulated activity type to list every licensee that holds it (for example all asset managers).
3. Optionally filter by licence status and licence type, then set Max Licensees and run.
4. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it through the Apify API.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a CE number? The Central Entity number is the unique identifier the SFC assigns to every licensed corporation and individual, for example AAA347. You can look one up directly for an exact match.

What do the regulated activity types mean? Each type is a category of regulated activity, from Type 1 (Dealing in Securities) to Type 13 (Depositary Services for CIS), plus the AMLO virtual asset service. A licensee can hold several at once.

Can I get every asset manager in Hong Kong? Yes. Set the regulated activity type to Type 9 (Asset Management) and the actor enumerates every licensee that holds it.

Does it include disciplinary history? Yes. Each record flags whether the licensee has any public disciplinary action, with the date and a link to the SFC press release. Actions that took effect more than five years ago are not published by the source.

How fresh is the data? Records are read live from the public register at run time, so each reflects the register at the moment of the run (see observedAt).

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

For AI agents: this Actor is available on x402, Apify's agentic payment standard built with Coinbase. An AI agent can discover, pay for and run it on its own with a funded wallet and a single HTTP request: no account, no subscription, no API key and no human in the loop. It also runs as an MCP tool inside Claude, Cursor and other AI clients out of the box. Learn more about x402 agentic payments on Apify.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). It only accesses publicly available register data. Use the results in accordance with the source's terms.