REGULATORY RESEARCH

Know who is behind the licence.

Find the regulator. Check your contracting company’s licence.

Plain-language guide to the terms
  1. Choose the country and regulator

    A regulator oversees financial services. The same abbreviation can refer to different authorities in different countries.

  2. Check the contracting company

    The legal entity is the company named in your agreement. Its name may differ from the trading brand.

  3. Read the official record

    A licence concerns a specific company and activities. Check its name, reference number and permitted services together.

Choose a country or regulator

Featured verification guides

Which FSA? Seychelles and Japan are different authorities.

These guides explain how to check a record. They are not a list of every firm registered with an authority.

Verification guides: 4 of 4

All regulators / authorities (19)

Authorities used in our recorded broker research. Counts describe coverage, not approval or safety.

Changes and monitoring

Read reviewed official announcements with their source and publication date. A changed page is not, by itself, proof of a licence change.

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