Information on insurance intermediary authorisation applications - April 2026

Table 1 outlines the number of applications for insurance intermediary authorisation received by the FCA.

Table 2 outlines the number of applications for insurance intermediary authorisation which were rejected by the FCA. We have provided both the refusal and the rejection figures as either could fall into this category. 

Table 3 outlines the number of applications for insurance intermediary authorisation the FCA approved unconditionally.

Table 4 outlines the number of applications for insurance intermediary authorisation the FCA approved with conditions. You clarified that in requesting applications approved with ‘conditions’, you are specifically seeking data on limitations applied to a firm’s insurance permissions.

We have presented a breakdown grouped on the type of limitation applied to the ‘Insurance Business’ or ‘Insurance Distribution’ regulated activity. In most cases this is a customer or investment type limitation. The below figures are not mutually exclusive; a case could have standard limitations in addition to a customer type limitation and would therefore be counted once in each row.

Table 5 outlines the mean average number of days to deliver our decision on an insurance intermediary authorisation.

Table 6 outlines the number of applications for insurance intermediary authorisation the FCA deemed to be incomplete on receipt.