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About FMIR

Financial Market Investment Regulator

FMIR works with supervisory bodies, law-enforcement units and licensed institutions to make virtual asset oversight operational and recover lost fund— one shared case record instead of three disconnected ones.

Our position

Why this organisation exists

We enable a fair and thriving financial services market for the good of consumers and the economy. Find out more about our role. We regulate financial services firms globally, setting standards for firms to meet and holding them to account if they don't. Our work helps underpin the UK’s reputation as a leading global financial centre – one where consumers are well served, and firms can operate and innovate with clarity and certainty.

Meanwhile volume keeps climbing. Reports get read in arrival order because there is no basis for reading them in any other order, and the highest-risk filing of the month can sit for a week behind routine threshold breaches.

That is an infrastructure problem, and it is solvable.

Operating principles

  • 1Explainability firstEvery score opens to the factors behind it. A number that cannot be defended cannot be acted on.
  • 2The record stays with its ownerResidency, retention and access are set by the contracting body. Every read of a case record is logged.
  • 3Narrow before wideOne module, one team, one measurable outcome. Programmes that launch everywhere land nowhere.
  • 4Honest about limitsTracing shows where value went. Only an institution or a court can return it.

How the work developed

From single-address checks to a shared supervisory record.

2021

Address screening

Single-address exposure checks against published sanctions data, run manually on request.

2022

Structured intake

Reporting moves off email into a validated schema, submitted through a portal and an API.

2023

Explainable ranking

Queues reorder by risk rather than arrival, with every score factor available to interrogate.

2024

Tracing & recovery

Cross-chain tracing with evidence packaging for receiving institutions and courts.

2026

Shared record

One case record across bodies, with role-scoped access replacing manual reconciliation.

Working relationships

Cross-border cooperation

A trace is only worth as much as the response it gets from the receiving institution. These are the relationships that convert analysis into an outcome.

🏛️Partner organisationSupervisory body · jurisdiction
🛡️Partner organisationLaw enforcement · jurisdiction
⚖️Partner organisationJudicial cooperation · jurisdiction
🏦Partner organisationCentral bank · jurisdiction
🌍Partner organisationStandards body · international
🔗Partner organisationLicensed institution · jurisdiction

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Standards we work to

FATF Recommendation 15

Virtual asset service provider obligations, including the Travel Rule for originator and beneficiary data.

Egmont Group principles

Information-sharing conventions between financial intelligence units across jurisdictions.

ISO 27001 aligned

Information security management controls covering access, retention and incident handling.

Data protection

Lawful basis, minimisation and subject rights applied to every record the platform holds.

Coordination is a mandate. Make it operational.

We brief agency teams on scope, deployment model and pilot design — no procurement commitment required.