Insurance intermediary in IE
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The same country as the solicitors row and the opposite behaviour, which is worth seeing side by side. The central bank publishes individual registers for every financial service provider it regulates, as dated snapshots rather than a live query: a register as at a given date, across credit institutions, investment business firms, insurance distribution, mortgage credit intermediaries, with the investment intermediary registers generally updated every two weeks or sooner. The whole set is listed as a dataset on the national data catalogue. It also publishes something almost nobody else does: a register of unauthorised firms, naming firms it has issued warning notices about. A dated artefact plus a published blacklist is most of what RVW-5 asks for, arrived at independently, and still nothing is signed. The registers site itself carries the line that they are working to ensure the accuracy of all registers as quickly as possible.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | Yes | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | Yes | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Sign the file
The export exists and is machine readable, which is the expensive part. What remains is a key and one DNS record on a domain the authority already controls, which makes the file impossible to forge and takes this row to grade A.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.