FCA Enforcement Notices Scraper

Extract UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) enforcement actions from their official RSS feed and news pages. Essential for compliance monitoring, due diligence, and regulatory risk assessment.

What does this Actor do?

This Actor scrapes enforcement-related content from the FCA's official RSS news feed, including:

• Final Notices - Completed enforcement actions with penalties/sanctions
• Decision Notices - Decisions to take regulatory action (may be appealed)
• Warning Notices - Proposed actions (not final)
• Enforcement Actions - Fines, prohibitions, and sanctions
• Press Releases - Announcements of regulatory actions

Data Source: FCA RSS Feed (https://www.fca.org.uk/news/rss.xml) and news pages

Why use this Actor?

For Compliance Teams

• Monitor competitor enforcement actions
• Stay updated on regulatory trends
• Benchmark your compliance program
• Track specific firms or individuals

For Due Diligence

• Screen potential partners/clients
• Check regulatory history of firms
• Identify red flags in financial services
• Research specific enforcement topics

For Financial Services Firms

• Regulatory intelligence gathering
• Risk assessment
• Market surveillance
• Competitive analysis

For Legal & Advisory

• Track enforcement precedents
• Research penalty amounts
• Monitor regulatory approach
• Support client advice

Input Configuration

Notice Types

Select which enforcement notices to scrape:

• final-notices - Completed actions with penalties
• decision-notices - Decisions to take action
• warning-notices - Proposed actions
• supervisory-notices - Supervisory interventions
• cancellation-notices - Authorisation cancellations

Max Pages

• Set to 0 to scrape all available pages
• Set to a specific number (e.g., 5) to limit scope
• Each page typically contains 10-20 notices

Start Year

• Filter notices by publication year
• Leave empty to get all historical data
• Useful for focusing on recent enforcement

Search Term

• Optional keyword search
• Search for specific firms, individuals, or topics
• Examples: "money laundering", "market abuse", "Deutsche Bank"

Output Format

Each notice includes:

{
  "title": "FCA fines Barclays Bank plc",
  "noticeType": "Final Notice",
  "category": "Press Releases",
  "firm": "Barclays Bank plc",
  "individual": null,
  "penalty": "£40.0m",
  "summary": "The FCA imposed a financial penalty of £40m on Barclays for failings in its anti-money laundering systems and controls...",
  "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-fines-barclays-bank-plc-2025",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-18T09:47:32.123Z"
}

Field Descriptions

• title - Full title of the enforcement notice
• noticeType - Type of notice (Final Notice, Decision Notice, etc.)
• category - FCA classification (Press Releases, News, Blogs)
• firm - Company name (if applicable)
• individual - Person's name (if applicable)
• penalty - Fine amount or sanction imposed
• summary - Full description from RSS feed
• url - Link to FCA press release or announcement
• scrapedAt - Timestamp of when data was collected

Note: The RSS feed doesn't include publication dates or direct PDF links. Click the url field to view the full press release where you can find the PDF download link.

Use Cases

Daily Monitoring

Set up scheduled runs to:

• Monitor new enforcement actions daily
• Track specific firms or individuals
• Alert on high-value penalties
• Stay current with regulatory trends

Historical Research

• Build comprehensive enforcement database
• Analyze penalty trends over time
• Research specific violation types
• Study regulatory approach evolution

Competitive Intelligence

• Track competitor enforcement actions
• Benchmark penalty amounts
• Identify industry-wide issues
• Monitor market conduct trends

Risk Assessment

• Screen potential partners
• Due diligence on firms
• Identify sector-specific risks
• Regulatory risk profiling

Integration Ideas

• Compliance Dashboards - Feed into monitoring tools
• CRM Systems - Enrich client profiles
• Risk Management - Auto-flag high-risk entities
• Alerts - Trigger notifications on specific firms
• Analytics - Build enforcement trends database
• Reporting - Generate regulatory intelligence reports

Data Quality

• Accurate - Scraped directly from official FCA source
• Complete - Captures all published enforcement notices
• Structured - Clean, consistent data format
• Timestamped - Track when data was collected
• Reliable - Handles pagination and error cases

Pricing

Monthly Rental: $25/month
Trial: 30 minutes

The rental model is perfect for compliance and regulatory monitoring because:

• ✅ Predictable monthly costs (what compliance teams want)
• ✅ 30-minute trial prevents bulk data export abuse
• ✅ Unlimited usage within your subscription
• ✅ Professional B2B SaaS model
• ✅ Recurring revenue relationship

Note: Apify may suggest "pay-per-event" for AI platform compatibility, but rental is still fully supported and better suited for human users and compliance teams who prefer predictable subscription pricing.

Support

For issues, feature requests, or questions:

• GitHub: spookyweb/fca-enforcement-notices
• Email: support@spookyweb.com

Legal & Compliance

This Actor scrapes publicly available data from the FCA website. All enforcement notices are public records published by the Financial Conduct Authority under their transparency obligations.

Data Source: https://www.fca.org.uk/publications

Users are responsible for their use of this data and should ensure compliance with applicable data protection and usage laws.

Version History

1.0.0 (2026-02-18)

• Initial release
• Support for 5 notice types
• Pagination support
• Date filtering
• Search functionality
• Clean, structured output