The finance firms job boards never show you
Every student fights for the same 50 names. Placement Scout maps the boutique M&A shops, wealth managers, and prop firms across the UK that hire quietly — straight from the Companies House and FCA registers.
100% free. Built by a finance student who used it first.
01 — The census
74,406
Every company on the Companies House register matching the SIC codes for finance. Most of them are not what you are looking for.
Preview
What's inside
One row per firm: sector, city, website, careers page, and FCA authorisation status — scored so the best-fit boutiques rise to the top.
| Firm | Sector | City | FCA | Careers page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympia Wealth Management | Asset & wealth mgmt | London | ||
| Sumerian Partners | M&A / advisory | London | ||
| Collins Dale Capital Partners | M&A / advisory | London | ||
| Blackwood Capital Group | M&A / advisory | London | ||
| Meridian Rock Capital | M&A / advisory | Leeds | ||
| Ashworth & Vane Advisory | M&A / advisory | Leeds | ||
| Caldera Point Partners | M&A / advisory | Leeds | ||
| Northgate Quant Trading | M&A / advisory | Leeds |
Example rows show real firms from the database. Blurred rows are illustrative.
What you get
A campaign, not a job board
Everything you need to run structured outreach to firms nobody else is contacting.
Mapped
Where the 74,389 boutique firms are
Every UK region, on the real map — shaded and sized by firm count. London and the South East are so dense their hexes overlap; that's not a bug, it's the point.
Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Hover or tab to a hex for the region name.
The rest of the site
Four pages doing the real work
All free, no signup. Data last checked 12 Oct 2026.
Hiring signals
Which careers pages changed in the last 90 days, dated, with a link to each one. The nearest thing here to a list of who is hiring right now.
Explore the database
Firm counts, company age and careers-page coverage for every sector and region combination, each with its own page.
The Outreach Playbook
How to pick thirty target firms, find the right person, and write something short that gets answered. Written for a placement search, not a sales funnel.
Methodology
Where the data comes from, how a firm is classified as a boutique, what raises its ranking, and the limitations that are known and unfixed.
2,782 careers pages are re-checked every night. Any firm can ask to be removed.
Access
Free. The whole thing.
No card, no trial, no catch — drop your email and the full database is yours.
Your email is used for the access link and the weekly digest — nothing else, ever.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Where does the data come from?
The UK Companies House register and the FCA's Financial Services Register, cross-referenced and enriched with each firm's own website. We show whether a firm is FCA-authorised and link to its public register entry — we don't invent anything.
Couldn't I just Google these firms?
Some of them, one at a time, if you knew their names. The point is the other 99 you'd never think to search for — plus the scoring, careers links, and weekly flagging of brand-new firms, done for you.
Is this only for M&A?
No — the database covers M&A / corporate advisory, asset & wealth management, private equity & venture capital, and quant & prop trading, across London and every major UK city.
Do you include people's personal contact details?
No. We list firms' public corporate channels — websites, careers pages, and general contact routes. The playbook teaches you to find the right person properly, using public professional sources.
Why is it free?
I built this to run my own placement campaign, and it costs little to share. If it helps you land something, tell the next year group — that's the payment.