The phrase "authorised firm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to business, finance, or legal matters to refer to a company that has received official permission or accreditation to operate in a specific capacity.
Example: "Only transactions conducted through an authorised firm will be considered valid under the new regulations."
Alternatives: "licensed company" or "certified business".
You can check whether an institution is authorised at a group level or as a separate entity by checking the authorised firms register on the Financial Services Authority's website.
The bonds can be bought via a stockbroker (authorised firms include Barclays Stockbrokers, Redmayne-Bentley and Selftrade).
The FCA website has the register of authorised firms, a list of unauthorised firms known to be operating in the UK, and a number of warnings.
The manufacturers can farm out the job, but only to authorised firms.Hewlett-Packard (HP), which makes lots of electronic devices that are subject to such rules, says it welcomes them.
In Europe, Spain's "Costa del Crime" has become the home of boiler room operations, usually manned by British citizens, with sophisticated websites (often cloned from authorised firms) to persuade investors the proposition is real.
"As we feared, key provisions of the FSA's new regulatory power in areas such as remuneration, living wills and disciplinary action are not restricted to banks but apply to all authorised firms such as insurance companies," said CMS Cameron McKenna's Paul Edmondson.
The issue of passporting – which allows UK authorised firms banks and fund managers to conduct business in the other 27 states – has also been highlighted by the Bundesbank president, Jens Weidmann, who told the Guardian that UK companies would lose these rights if it did not remain part of at least the EEA (EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).
Most of the trade in those days was carried out by the Marwari community, which owned 95% of the 200 authorised firms.
