The Money Services Business Registry is the searchable record of businesses registered with Canada’s financial intelligence unit before they may operate as money services businesses. The agency states that registration does not indicate endorsement or licensing, only that a business has satisfied the legal requirements to register.
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Not established The overall access position has not been established from an official source. It is recorded as unknown rather than assumed to be open.
Assessment
Strengths
Registration is a legal precondition to operating, so the registry is a genuine gate rather than a voluntary listing.
It distinguishes registered, revoked, ceased and expired statuses, so a reader can tell a current registration from a lapsed one.
The agency documents its own update cadence and states that a downloadable version is available, which makes the freshness of an answer checkable.
Limitations
Registration is not endorsement, licensing or approval. The agency says so directly, and says it issues no licences or certificates.
A registration status can lag reality: the agency notes that a business whose renewal is still being processed remains shown as registered past its expiry date.
No query was executed during verification, so the search behaviour is recorded from the agency’s own documentation rather than observed, and no search URL is published.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Checking whether a money services business is currently registered in Canada, and verifying its registered name and number.
Distinguishing a registered business from one whose registration has been revoked, ceased or expired, which the registry records as separate statuses.
Not recommended for
Treating registration as approval. The agency states plainly that registration does not indicate that it endorses or licenses a business, and that it issues no licences or certificates of registration.
Obtaining information beyond the registry. The agency states it cannot provide further information about a business than what the registry makes available.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Yes
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Yes
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
Money services businesses operating in Canada
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
10 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
9 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
9 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
9 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
9 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
5 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
10 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
9 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.