UK FCA Enforcement Notices

Extract UK Financial Conduct Authority enforcement actions as structured data: notice type, firm, individual, penalty amount, summary and a link to the FCA's own page. No account needed.

🔍 What does UK FCA Enforcement Notices do?

It reads the FCA's official RSS news feed and enforcement pages and returns every matching notice as a clean row of data, ready for a spreadsheet, a database or your own compliance tooling.

It covers:

• Final notices, completed enforcement actions with penalties or sanctions
• Decision notices, decisions to take regulatory action, which may be appealed
• Warning notices, proposed actions that are not final
• Supervisory notices, interventions and restrictions
• Cancellation notices, firm authorisation cancellations

The source is the FCA RSS feed and the FCA's own news pages.

📊 What data can I extract from the FCA?

One row per notice:

Field	Description
title	Full title of the enforcement notice
noticeType	Type of notice, for example Final Notice or Decision Notice
category	FCA classification, for example Press Releases, News or Blogs
publishDate	Date the FCA published the item, ISO format
firm	Company name, where the notice names one
individual	Person's name, where the notice names one
penalty	Fine amount or sanction imposed
summary	Full description from the RSS feed
url	Link to the FCA press release or announcement
scrapedAt	Timestamp of when the data was collected

The RSS feed does not include direct PDF links. Open the url to reach the full press release, where the PDF download link lives.

💡 Why scrape FCA enforcement notices?

Compliance monitoring. Watch new enforcement actions daily and see where the regulator's attention is going before it reaches you.

Due diligence. Screen a firm or an individual for regulatory history before onboarding a partner, client or hire.

Penalty benchmarking. Track fine amounts by breach type over time to size your own exposure.

Legal and advisory research. Build a searchable record of enforcement precedent to support client advice.

🚀 How do I use UK FCA Enforcement Notices?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Choose which notice types to collect with finalNotices, decisionNotices, warningNotices, supervisoryNotices and cancellationNotices.
3. Add a searchTerm to focus on a firm, individual or topic, for example money laundering.
4. Set maxPages to limit the scope, or 0 for every page, and use startYear to skip older notices.
5. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them from the API.

⬇️ Input

{
  "finalNotices": true,
  "decisionNotices": true,
  "warningNotices": true,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "searchTerm": "money laundering"
}

Field	Type	Default	What it does
finalNotices	boolean	true	Scrape final notices, completed actions with penalties
decisionNotices	boolean	true	Scrape decision notices, decisions to take action that may be appealed
warningNotices	boolean	true	Scrape warning notices, proposed actions that are not final
supervisoryNotices	boolean	false	Scrape supervisory notices, interventions and restrictions
cancellationNotices	boolean	false	Scrape cancellation notices, firm authorisation cancellations
maxPages	integer	0	Kept for compatibility, the feed is a single document so this has no effect
startYear	integer		Only notices from this year onwards, leave empty for all
searchTerm	string		Keyword search for firms, individuals or topics

Each page typically contains 10 to 20 notices, so maxPages is the practical way to bound a run. searchTerm works well for a named firm or a breach type, for example market abuse or Deutsche Bank.

⬆️ Output

Table view

Results arrive as a Notices table you can sort and filter in the Console, with the notice type, firm and penalty lined up for scanning.

JSON

A typical row:

{
  "title": "FCA fines Barclays Bank plc",
  "noticeType": "Final Notice",
  "category": "Press Releases",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-18",
  "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"
}

Download it from the run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it straight from the API.

A note on firm and individual fields

firm is only populated when the notice title contains a recognisable company name ending in a corporate suffix such as Limited, PLC, LLP or Bank. Where the title does not name a company, for example a general policy announcement, firm is null rather than a guess. The same applies to individual. A null is deliberate: a wrong company name is worse than a missing one when you are filtering enforcement data.

⏱️ How long does a run take?

Measured on real runs, so you know what normal looks like and can tell it apart from a run that has stalled.

What the run reads	Typical run time
The whole FCA news feed, currently 5 to 8 notices	2 to 5 seconds

There is only one row here because there is only one document. The FCA publishes its enforcement news as a single RSS feed with no paging, so the Actor fetches it once and filters in memory. Asking for more notice types, a keyword or an earlier start year changes what comes back but not how long it takes, and a run that returns eight notices takes the same two to five seconds as one that returns none. Most of that is the container starting rather than the work.

A run is never silently stuck. The fetch and the filtering are both logged, and if the feed cannot be read the run still finishes, with an empty dataset and the reason in its status message rather than a failure.

Set the run timeout to suit the size of the ask. This Actor's default is 3600 seconds, which is comfortably more than the largest run in the table above (20 pages of notices takes about 2 minutes). You are charged per delivered result rather than per minute, so a generous timeout costs you nothing and a tight one risks losing the run's work. Lower it only if you want a hard ceiling on how long a scheduled run may sit.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.001 per notice returned, plus the standard $0.00005 Apify charges once when a run starts. There is no monthly rental, so you pay only for what a run actually returns.

So a run that returns 50 notices costs $0.05005. A monthly monitoring run that picks up 15 new notices costs $0.01505, and a full walk of a year holding 300 notices costs $0.30005. A run that finds nothing new costs $0.00005.

Paid Apify plans pay less per notice: $0.00085 on Bronze, $0.0007 on Silver, $0.0006 on Gold, $0.0005 on Platinum and $0.0004 on Diamond, which is 40 percent of the list price. That 300 notice year is $0.12005 on Diamond.

Set maxPages to bound the run, and startYear to skip years you already hold. The Apify listing always shows the current rates.

🔌 Integrations

Send results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, Zapier, Make or your own webhook using Apify integrations. You can also trigger a run whenever something happens in another tool, which is the usual way to wire enforcement alerts into a compliance dashboard.

🔗 Using UK FCA Enforcement Notices with the Apify API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/spookyweb~uk-fca-enforcement-notices/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"finalNotices": true, "decisionNotices": true, "warningNotices": true, "maxPages": 5, "searchTerm": "money laundering"}'

Or with the Apify client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('spookyweb/uk-fca-enforcement-notices').call({
  finalNotices: true,
  decisionNotices: true,
  warningNotices: true,
  maxPages: 5,
  searchTerm: 'money laundering',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Full detail is in the Apify API reference, and every run is also callable from the Python and JavaScript clients.

❓ FAQ

What is the difference between a final notice and a warning notice?

A warning notice sets out action the FCA proposes to take, and it is not final. A decision notice records that the FCA has decided to act, and it can still be referred to the Upper Tribunal. A final notice is the completed action, with the penalty or sanction actually imposed. If you only want concluded matters, set finalNotices to true and turn the other two off.

Does it include the penalty amount?

Yes, in the penalty field, where the notice states one. Warning and decision notices often do not carry a figure yet, and policy announcements never do, so penalty is null on those rather than a guess.

How far back does it go?

As far back as the FCA keeps its notice listings online. Set maxPages to 0 and leave startYear empty to walk every page, or set startYear to focus on recent enforcement and keep the run short.

Can I track a specific firm?

Yes, put the firm name into searchTerm. Bear in mind the firm field is only filled when the title names a company with a corporate suffix, so search by term rather than filtering on firm alone if you want everything mentioning that business.

How quickly do new notices appear?

The Actor reads the FCA's live RSS feed, so a notice is available as soon as the FCA publishes it. Schedule a daily run with a low maxPages to pick up new items without re-collecting the archive.

Why is there no publication date in the output?

The FCA RSS feed does not carry one, and inventing a date from the scrape time would be worse than leaving it out. Use scrapedAt to know when you collected a row, and open url for the FCA's own dated page.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape FCA enforcement notices?

The FCA publishes final, decision, warning and supervisory notices itself, as a statutory part of its enforcement process. These are public regulatory records about firms and, where the FCA has chosen to name them, individuals. This Actor reads only the FCA's own published pages, and it never logs in.

Users are responsible for their own use of the data, including compliance with applicable data protection law where a notice names an individual. Apify's ethical scraping guide covers the wider picture.

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