UK art & antiques dealers and AML supervision, in numbers

Name: UK art & antiques dealers — AML supervision aggregate statistics
Creator: ArtGuard

1,480+ AML-supervised art-market businesses on the HMRC register, across 343 towns. £1,055,526 in published AML penalties across 204 businesses. These figures are cross-referenced and aggregated from official public sources (HMRC AML register, Companies House) — no business is singled out here. We've built a public page for the 520 of these we can map and contact; the wider register is larger still.

ArtGuard reviews public registers · Generated 21 Jul 2026

The register, in headline figures

Measure	Figure
AML-supervised art-market businesses	1,480
With an approved HMRC registration	1,308
Towns represented	343
On the GOV.UK published-penalties list	204 (£1,055,526)
With a website on record	505 (34%)

Source: cross-referenced and aggregated from official public sources (HMRC AML register, Companies House).

By area — and how many appear on the penalties list

Area	Businesses	On penalties list

Source: GOV.UK published-penalties list ("Businesses that have not complied with the Money Laundering Regulations").

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