Pensions dashboards: how to connect to the ecosystem

If you are connecting to the MaPS pensions dashboards ecosystem via a third-party connection provider, such as an integrated service provider (ISP), the third-party connection provider will be able to advise you when it will need your firm's registration code to meet your mutually agreed connection date.

Registration codes are valid for 30 days, so please consider whether your Senior Management Function of Compliance Oversight (SMF16) will be available to receive the code during its 30-day validity period.

If your firm does not currently have an active SMF16, or if your current active SMF16 will be unavailable during the 30-day validity period, please nominate an alternative appropriate active SMF.

Please note, your registration code cannot be used until your ISP has completed PDP’s operational acceptance testing.

To request a registration code:

1. Download the application form (120 KB).
2. Email the completed form to [email protected] with the subject line: ‘Pensions Dashboards – Registration Codes Request’.

Any member of your firm can complete and submit the form.

Make sure you:

• Complete all the mandatory fields on the form accurately.
• Supply details of your firm’s SMF16 or alternative appropriate active SMF.
• Submit only 1 form per firm reference number (FRN) at a time.

Firms subject to COBS 19.11 require 1 registration code per FRN. The application form does not require the firm to list the separate personal pensions, stakeholder pensions and deferred annuity products that it is obliged to connect under that code.

Firms that also administer occupational pension schemes subject to the requirements in the Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022, should work with each in-scope occupational scheme's trustee or manager to obtain the relevant registration code from The Pensions Regulator.

You can request more than 2 codes in the application form if you are connecting via more than 2 third-party connection providers.  

For first-time applicants, we will issue 2 registration codes as a matter-of-course (unless you request more than 2 codes at the outset). Where a firm needs only one code, it needs to use only 1 of the codes provided.

You can also use this form if you later need additional registration codes.

If you need help to complete the form, email [email protected].

We will contact you within 2 working days to either:

• Issue the codes.
• Tell you if there are errors or omissions in your application form.

Once the request is approved, we’ll send 2 emails to your active SMF16 or alternative appropriate active SMF.

1. Email 1: MaPS registration codes in a password-protected zipped file.
2. Email 2: password to access the zipped file.

Registration codes are only valid for 30 days.