FINTRAC Money Services Business Registry with Monthly Updates
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Description
Monthly updated registry of money services businesses registered with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC). The dataset includes business names, registration numbers, and statuses such as Registered, Ceased, Expired, or Revoked, as of the last update on 2026-04-09. It is provided by FINTRAC under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Use Cases
Verify business registration status for compliance checks based on the listed status categories.
Monitor changes in the money services sector based on monthly registry updates.
Identify businesses with revoked or expired registrations for risk assessment.
Cross-reference business names and numbers for due diligence processes.
Strengths
Updated monthly, providing relatively current information.
Includes explicit registration status definitions (Registered, Ceased, Expired, Revoked).
All fields are searchable on the source website according to the description.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect regulatory bias inherent to the FINTRAC registry.
Provenance
Source
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Collection Method
Regulatory registration and renewal submissions.
Time Range
Current as of the last monthly update.
Freshness
Updated monthly; last metadata update 2026-04-09.
Geography
Canada (and foreign businesses directing services to Canada).
Registration does not indicate FINTRAC endorsement or licensing. A downloadable XLSX version is available.