Find out how much your firm’s application fee will be to become authorised by us, or registered with us, depending on the type of application and the type of business your firm operates.
Your firm's application fee will fall into one of our 10 pricing categories – each category covers a different group of permissions.
The table below indicates the fee you're likely to pay if you're one of these common types of firm. For full details of the permissions covered by each pricing category, see further down the page.
We also explain how to pay your application fee (which is separate from the FCA annual fee).
Fees for common types of firm
How to pay
You need to pay your fee via our online system Connect:
- use a credit or debit card to pay when you apply
- you have to pay the fee to submit an application
- the fee is non-refundable
You can also use My FCA, the new portal for registered and authorised firms, to sign in with your existing details for direct access to Connect and RegData.
From My FCA you can view a task list of your scheduled regulatory reporting and attestations with direct access to the forms and see information from across the systems and recent regulatory updates.
Changing your FSMA permission
In some cases you need to pay a fee if you change (vary) your permission.
Find out more about variation of permission and when there's a fee to pay.
The FCA annual fee
The authorisation application fee is a one-off payment, but once authorised you will pay us a periodic fee each year. In your first year, you only pay a proportion of the fee (based on the number of months remaining in the fee year) and we contact you directly about paying this.
We're largely funded by the firms we regulate and aim to cover our costs as fairly and efficiently as possible.
Find out more about how we calculate our annual fees.
