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Saxo

United Kingdom · Saxo Capital Markets UK Limited

Costs
FX trades below 50,000 base-currency units: USD3 commission, with variations. Conversion: 0.20–0.60% by tier.
Platforms
Saxo tools plus TradingView, MultiCharts and APIs.
Client protection
UK page lists negative balance protection and segregated client-money trust accounts.
Sources and applicability

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

Costs

Conversion: Classic 0.60%, Platinum 0.40%, VIP 0.20%; actual payments, not margin collateral. FX rollover is separate. Minimum 0.7 pips remains the product-page value checked 29 September. Confirm applicable pricing in the trade ticket.

UK FX pricing — small-trade commission / rollover ↗ · 2026-09-30UK general charges — conversion tiers / inactivity ↗ · 2026-09-30UK Forex — saved minimum spread ↗ · 2026-09-29
Client protection

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Forex / How are money and assets protected ↗ · 2026-09-29

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

Saxo

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Brand overview and official site

Saxo operates through 5 legal entities recorded in the current FXVeritas research file across United Kingdom, DK, Singapore, Switzerland, and Japan.

Official website snapshot
An official website snapshot is not on file for this broker.

Official website snapshot

Client protection

Shown per legal entity. Group-wide claims are not used.

Saxo Bank A/S

Segregated client money
unknown
Negative balance protection
unknown
Investor compensation
Official licence page: Danish DGS deposits EUR 100,000 per depositor; investor instruments EUR 20,000 if instruments cannot be returned. Scope is Saxo Bank A/S and named UAE/CZ/FR/BE/NL branches. Explicitly not automatic for subsidiaries in CH/IT/UK/JP/SG.
Compensation limit
EUR 100,000 deposits; EUR 20,000 investor instruments (Saxo Bank A/S DGS)
Retail / professional difference
Not recorded
Insolvency treatment
Not recorded

Saxo Capital Markets UK Ltd

Segregated client money
unknown
Negative balance protection
unknown
Investor compensation
FSCS is not stored. Catalog previously inferred FSCS from a generic FSCS page; UK disclaimer does not itself state FSCS. Danish DGS is not copied here.
Compensation limit
Not recorded
Retail / professional difference
Not recorded
Insolvency treatment
Not recorded

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