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Regulatory hosts

Monitor principal and AR books without working the register by hand.

Map appointed representatives, principal firms, institutional AR platforms, permissions, classifications, relationship dates, people movement, and regulatory changes in one workflow.

Premium regulatory-hosting atrium with glass-fronted private suites and a mezzanine
33,000+

AR and principal relationships

90,000+

FCA-regulated firms

4,000+

monthly role changes

Use cases

Workflows for regulatory hosts.

Each workflow starts with a specific market question and turns the answer into a list, monitor, export, or client-ready brief.

Find ARs by type

Search appointed representatives by classification and current principal relationship to identify investment-manager ARs that could become potential targets.

Hackford search builder showing appointed representatives classified as investment managers with current principal relationships

Map principal firms with relevant AR books

Find authorised principal firms with five or more current appointed representatives in investment-management segments so you can build and monitor a competitor set.

Hackford search builder showing principal firms with at least five investment-manager appointed representatives

Export principal and AR relationship rows

Open a principal firm profile, review current and previous appointed-representative relationships, and export current relationship rows to CSV.

Hackford firm profile showing appointed representative relationships and the export relationships CSV control

FAQs

Practical details.

Does Hackford show principal and appointed representative relationships?

Yes. Hackford includes appointed representative and principal relationships and makes them searchable for market mapping and monitoring.

Can hosts monitor competitor movement?

Hackford can help teams track market structure, firm status, permissions, and relationship changes that are visible in public regulatory data.

See the workflow with your market.

Bring a target segment or regulatory question and Hackford can show the searches, lists, and exports that fit it.

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