California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) publishes a list of licensed escrow agents. The Department of Insurance and the Department of Real Estate maintain separate records for title-related and broker-operated escrow.
Three regulators. Three databases. Three different formats. No single view.
We wrote up how those three regimes differ in California escrow has three rulebooks. That note is the map; EscrowMap is the lookup tool.
EscrowMap today. DFPI-licensed independent escrow agents — searchable in one place. Title-affiliated and broker-operated records from DOI and DRE are on the roadmap. This is public data. We organized it from published regulatory filings.
Why this matters for Veto. When an escrow officer receives changed wire instructions from an "escrow agent," one of the first checks is: is this entity actually licensed? Does it appear in the regulator's records? Is the contact information consistent?
EscrowMap makes the DFPI side of that check take seconds instead of minutes. When broker and title data ship, the same question will apply across regimes — with the same honesty about what each source proves.
The data is free. The tool is free. It is one small part of the evidence chain that belongs on the record.
For operator-facing review work, start with the review receipt standard or the self-audit.