Financial Services Register Checks

Financial services register check

Instantly verify financial services register (FSR) with Zinc’s purpose-built, fully automated check for UK financial services teams.

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Why automate financial services register checks?

Manual compliance checks for SM&CR (Senior Managers & Certification Regime) candidates are slow and error-prone. Zinc automates the process to deliver fast, accurate, and audit-ready results — protecting your business and saving valuable time.

Compliance at the heart of automation

Instant results, straight to your ATS

Zinc makes Financial Services Register (FSR) checks effortless and instant — streamlining compliance for FCA-regulated roles. Say goodbye to manual errors and delays when onboarding SM&CR employees.

How it works

Zinc’s FSR checks are fast and fully integrated with your ATS, returning results in seconds as part of a comprehensive FCA-compliant background check suite. While there are three steps behind the scenes, your team and candidates experience it as one seamless click.

Candidates submit their name and IRN (Individual Reference Number). If you’ve already verified their ID, we’ll retrieve it from their document.

Zinc verifies the IRN against the FCA Financial Services Register.

You receive verified results within seconds—including past and current firm associations, status, and disciplinary history.

Explore our features

Automated checks

Makes Financial Services Register (FSR) checks effortless and instant.

ATS integrations

Integrate our checks into your ATS or HRIS.

Global coverage

Zinc handles global complexity, checking your candidate's wherever they work.

Tailored packages

Curate a checking package for specific countries or regulation. Or have one globally consistent range of checks.

Simple and secure

Simple and secure checks, helping you make safer hiring decisions.

Elevated experiences

Custom brand your candidate's flows and choose light or dark mode. Candidate's can easily submit checks from any device.

Compliant

Fully compliant with Global & EU law.
Tier 1 registered with the ICO.

Integrations

Direct ATS integrations. Get in touch and we'll set you up for free.

Support

Instant live chat support from the Zinc team around the clock.

Robust

Robust service that's relied upon by regulated businesses globally.

FAQs

Find answers to common questions about financial services register checks.

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How long does a financial services register check take?

Results are delivered instantly.

What information do we need from the candidate for a financial services register check?

The candidate’s full name and Individual Reference Number (IRN).

What information is included in a financial services register check report

The report includes:- IRN- Full name- Registration status- Current and previous associated firms- Disciplinary history

Loved by the customers and candidates

“I can’t fault Zinc really, for me it’s been a seamless process even with changing the integrations from Workable to Greenhouse it’s been easy. As a team when it comes to the process we don’t even have to think about it really, which is a good thing.”

Philip Stephens

People Operations Specialist

“Zinc is coming up with new ways to improve the experience such as allowing the HMRC check to be completed alongside regulatory references, a game changer when ensuring a candidate's work history is accounted for. All in all, a great experience so far!”

Claire Jackson

Compliance Coordinator

“The Zinc team comes with ideas that brings it to the next level. I really appreciate that there is a willingness to develop and make changes. It's quick and it just happens. It's so difficult to find other partners that have that have that same mindset. For me that's the most important thing that you actually want to hear what we're saying and adapt to our ways of thinking.”

Marlen Gfrörer

Staff Onboarding

“I needed something that I could rely on to do thorough background checks. You can't cut corners on recruitment in education. If you can't do the safeguarding at recruitment, then you're letting unsafe people into the organisation. I needed something that I could depend on, and I’m 100% confident Zinc is that.”

Alex Pazik

Safeguarding Manager

“We have been using Zinc for nearly 2 years now and it has made a world of difference with our onboarding. Zinc saves us a huge amount of time, takes the admin off our team along with having all the references in one place. We can click a button and everything is done for us, we will never go back to manual reference checking”

Craig McElroy

Talent Acquisition Manager

“Being FCA regulated we have no room for error with our checks. Zinc is our go-to for DBS & RTW checks with lightning fast turn-around times, zero admin, and maintaining a best in class candidate experience”

Smitha Sanjeev

People Operations

“Zinc is brilliant! It takes a big burden off us by handling reference follow-ups and chasing. Plus, the integration with PinPoint works great! It’s simple and easy to use for new hires and employers alike, and the chat is really useful too. Being 100% compliant with our client’s background verification requirements gives me peace of mind and keeps us feeling on top of our game!”

Swetha Sundaram

Head of HR