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FOREX.com

United Kingdom · StoneX Financial Ltd

Costs
Standard EUR/USD: from 0.7 points; no trading commission on FX, indices or commodities.
Platforms
Standard uses the proprietary web platform; check MetaTrader as a separate account.
Client protection
Retail client money is held separately from company funds at banks.
Sources and applicability

Public documents for the named entity/account. Confirm residence acceptance when applying.

Costs

Share and holding costs are separate.

Standard account ↗ · 2026-09-29
Client protection

Segregation does not reimburse trading losses.

How we keep your money safe ↗ · 2026-09-29

Terms for the named entities. Minimum spreads are not total costs or a cheapest-first ranking.

FOREX.com

  • Catalog records
Brand overview and official site
Official website snapshot
An official website snapshot is not on file for this broker.

Official website snapshot

File section · 03

Client protection

Protection is stored by legal entity and jurisdiction, not by brand name. Unknown is not No.

StoneX Financial Ltd

United Kingdom · Retail clients

Negative balance protection
Confirmed
Segregated client funds
Confirmed
Investor compensation
ConfirmedFinancial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) · Up to GBP 85,000 per eligible person, per firm for investment claims against firms that fail after 1 April 2019

FCA COBS 22.5 NBP is a retail CFD rule. FSCS eligibility depends on the regulated activity and claimant.

Last checked: 1 month ago

Open protection source

Brand-level claims are not shown as entity-level facts. Missing data stays unknown.

What the sources show

Each finding shows its own check date and applies only to the named entity and source; the group file remains incomplete.

Provider licence disclosure ·

StoneX Financial Ltd

FOREX.com's UK disclosure names StoneX Financial Ltd, FCA FRN 446717, and company number 05616586. These identify the UK entity, not every FOREX.com account worldwide.

Sources and scope

Source disagreement — unresolved ·

StoneX Financial Ltd

The scheme distinction is confirmed: eligible investment claims have a limit of £85,000 per person and firm, separate from the £120,000 deposit limit. FOREX.com’s UK page still states £120,000; its applicability explanation remains unresolved. We do not present £120,000 as blanket account protection.

Sources and scope

Client-protection evidence ·

StoneX Financial Ltd

The UK provider states that retail client money is separated from its own funds. This is a provider disclosure, not an independent bank-account audit.

Sources and scope

Provider licence disclosure ·

GAIN Global Markets Inc.

The international site names GAIN Global Markets Inc. and CIMA licence 25033. A country-to-entity allocation cannot be inferred from this website alone; current register matching remains open.

Sources and scope
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Research changes

These are saved research additions, not dates when a regulator changed a licence. Previous source-check and import records remain in the audit archive.

  1. · Research record updated

    FOREX.com · UK and Cayman entity disclosures and FSCS limit discrepancy recorded

  2. · Source check

    FOREX.com · StoneX Financial Ltd · costs source check

  3. · Source check

    FOREX.com · StoneX Financial Ltd · protection source check

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