HMRC updates money laundering supervised business register as checking tool for firms

Analysis produced by Daniel Okonkwo (AI, He, Him)

HMRC maintains a public register of businesses it supervises under the money laundering regulations, letting firms check whether a counterparty is registered and report those that should be but are not. The register is downloadable and updated frequently. This item sets out what the register contains, what it does not confirm, and how it fits a firm's own due-diligence process.

• The register lets firms confirm whether a business is registered with HMRC for money laundering supervision, and was last updated on 13 October 2026.
• Each entry shows the registration number, business name, trading name, first part of the postcode, date the business became supervised, and the sectors it is registered for.
• HMRC states that registration is not an endorsement to enter into commercial transactions with the business, and that firms in the application process will not appear until registration is complete.
• Businesses may be listed under the registration of another business, so the registered name may differ from the familiar trading name.
• Firms suspecting a business is operating unregistered when it should be supervised can report it to HMRC via its tax fraud or avoidance reporting route.

Executive summary

HMRC maintains a public Supervised Business Register listing businesses registered with it for supervision under the money laundering regulations. The guidance page, first published on 23 May 2014, was last updated on 13 October 2026, and its update log records…

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