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Question and answers about Hackford's regulatory intelligence, public resources, reports and machine-readable endpoints.
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What is Hackford?
Hackford is a regulatory intelligence platform for compliance and regtech teams. It combines FCA Register data, SEC adviser data, Companies House information, proprietary firm classifications, role-change monitoring, watchlists and exports to help users find and track regulated financial services firms.
What data does Hackford cover?
Hackford covers UK FCA-regulated firms and US SEC adviser firms, with additional company, role, classification and change-monitoring data. Public reports, insights and selected firm profiles are available on hackforddata.com.
Who uses Hackford?
Hackford is built for compliance consultants, regtech and compliance software teams, data and market-mapping teams, and advisory teams that need to understand regulated financial-services firms.
What can users do with Hackford?
Users can search regulated firms, segment markets by authorisation and permissions, identify senior-manager role changes, track watchlists, export lists, and understand firms operating across UK FCA and US SEC regulatory perimeters.
How does Hackford use FCA Register data?
Hackford turns public FCA Register records into searchable firm and role intelligence, then adds classification, monitoring and export workflows that are designed for commercial and compliance use cases.
Where are Hackford machine-readable resources?
Hackford exposes machine-readable resources through JSON Feed, RSS, llms.txt, API catalogue and OpenAPI endpoints.