How to Check if a Company Is Registered in Seychelles

Before you pay a supplier, sign with a partner, or invest in a Seychelles business, there is one check worth two minutes of your time: confirming the company is actually registered. A domestic company in Seychelles is recorded with the Registration Division of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and you can verify it for free — by name or by registration number. This guide shows you how, what a genuine record looks like, the one important limit you should know about, and how to spot a business that isn't what it claims to be.

Who keeps Seychelles' company register?

Seychelles' official registrar of domestic entities is the Registration Division, which operates under the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Every domestic company, registered business name, and association operating legally in Seychelles is recorded there — its name, entity type, and registration are matters of public record, searchable online with no login.

How to search the Seychelles company register

1. Get the company's exact registered name or its registration number (the certificate or invoice usually shows one).
2. Search it on Fylings — type the name in the box and we check the Registration Division's business search, so you're not limited to a stale cache.
3. Open the matching result to see the registered name, entity type, industry, and the source and date the record was checked.
4. No match under that exact name? Try a shorter form of the name. Still nothing — that's a red flag worth pausing on.

What a Seychelles company record shows

Seychelles' public business search is deliberately lean — it confirms an entity exists and what type it is, rather than dumping its full file. On Fylings, a Seychelles record shows:

• The registered (legal) name — the exact name on the register
• The registration number — with a prefix that signals the entity type (see below)
• The entity type — e.g. a company, a registered business name, or an association
• The industry — the line of business recorded against the entity
• The source and date — every record is attributed to the Registration Division, with the date it was checked

Reading a Seychelles registration number

Seychelles' registration numbers carry a prefix that tells you the entity type at a glance:

• C — a Company (an ordinary registered company)
• B — a registered Business Name (sole proprietor or partnership)
• A — an Association

Matching the prefix to how the business presents itself is a quick sanity check — a 'company' that's actually registered as a business name (B) has no separate legal personality and no shareholders.

An important limit: this is the DOMESTIC register

Seychelles is two registers in one country, and only one of them is public. The Registration Division's search covers domestic Seychelles entities — local companies, business names, and associations actually trading in-country. It does not cover Seychelles' large population of offshore International Business Companies (IBCs), which are not publicly searchable.

How to spot a company that isn't registered

Most problems aren't elaborate forgeries — they're businesses that simply never registered, or that use a name close to a real one. Watch for:

• No match on the domestic register under the exact name they gave you — the single biggest signal (for a domestic company).
• A registration number that doesn't resolve to the name on the document.
• A name that is suspiciously similar to a well-known company (e.g. an extra word or initial).
• Vague claims of being a 'Seychelles offshore company' used to discourage you from checking — ask for the certificate and the registering agent.
• Pressure to pay before you've had a chance to verify anything.