Broker records we publish
Ordered by the traderpublic desk score on each record. Records our desk has not scored are not ranked here.
This order is our published desk score, which covers the broker overall. It is NOT a safety ranking: a compensation scheme and its ceiling are what would make one, and neither is published on our records.
Rank12 licences verified
Record updated 2 Sept 2026
4.7 out of 5
Read the full recordYour capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.
What the desk checked for this category
- ✓Negative balance protectionofferedStated in the Client Agreement; clients may never lose more than their total deposits.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
- ✓Segregated client fundsofferedHeld in separate bank accounts with named custodian banks.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
Licences verified2 of 2 checked against the register
Score breakdown
- Licence and oversight5 / 5
- What you can trade4 / 5
- Desktop and web platform5 / 5
What the desk recorded
- The broker is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK regulator for financial services firms, under licence number 509956, listed as authorised.
- The broker is authorised by CySEC, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission for investment firms, under licence number 078/07, listed as authorised.
Rank23 licences verified
Record updated 2 Sept 2026
4.3 out of 5
Read the full recordYour capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.
What the desk checked for this category
- ✓Negative balance protectionofferedRetail clients only; balance is reinstated to zero.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
- ✓Segregated client fundsofferedHeld at regulated banks, separate from company funds.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
Licences verified3 of 3 checked against the register
Score breakdown
- Licence and oversight5 / 5
- What you can trade4 / 5
- Desktop and web platform4 / 5
What the desk recorded
- The broker is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, with licence number 793714 recorded as authorised.
- The broker is authorised by CySEC in Cyprus, with licence number 319/17 recorded as authorised.
Rank33 licences verified
Record updated 2 Sept 2026
4.3 out of 5
Read the full recordYour capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.
What the desk checked for this category
- ✓Negative balance protectionofferedA negative balance is automatically reset to zero.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
- ✓Segregated client fundsofferedClient funds cannot be used to repay company creditors.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
Licences verified3 of 3 checked against the register
Score breakdown
- Licence and oversight5 / 5
- What you can trade4 / 5
- Desktop and web platform4 / 5
What the desk recorded
- The broker is authorised by the FCA, the UK regulator for financial services firms, with licence number 801701.
- The broker is authorised by CySEC, the Cyprus regulator for investment firms, with licence number 183/12.
Rank42 licences verified
Record updated 24 Sept 2026
4.3
Read the full recordYour capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.
What the desk checked for this category
Our desk has not checked any of these terms for this broker yet.
- –Negative balance protectionnot checked
- –Segregated client fundsnot checked
Licences verified2 of 3 checked against the register
Score breakdown
- Licence and oversight5
- What you can trade4
- Desktop and web platform4
Rank51 licences verified
Record updated 2 Sept 2026
4.3 out of 5
Read the full recordYour capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.
What the desk checked for this category
- ✓Negative balance protectionofferedStated for FCA-regulated retail clients of the UK entity, in line with FCA rules.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
- ✓Segregated client fundsofferedClient capital is never used for the company's business interests.source · read on 16 Sept 2026
Licences verified1 of 1 checked against the register
Score breakdown
- Licence and oversight4 / 5
- What you can trade5 / 5
- Desktop and web platform4 / 5
What the desk recorded
- Authorised by CySEC, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, under licence number 215/13.
- This authorisation carried the status "authorised" when checked on 2 September 2026.
Rank63 licences verified
Record updated 24 Sept 2026
4
Read the full recordYour capital is at risk. Licence facts only — not a recommendation.
What the desk checked for this category
Our desk has not checked any of these terms for this broker yet.
- –Negative balance protectionnot checked
- –Segregated client fundsnot checked
Licences verified3 of 4 checked against the register
Score breakdown
- Licence and oversight4
- What you can trade4
- Desktop and web platform4
Every row below was checked by our research desk against the broker's own materials or the regulator's register; a blank cell means nobody has checked it yet, not that the broker lacks it.
What decides fund safety — and what we have not published
Segregation, negative balance protection and the licence trail are published facts. What a compensation scheme would actually pay out is not, and that is the figure that matters if a firm fails.
- Segregated client funds✓
- Negative balance protection✓
- Licences we verified against the register✓
- Investor compensation scheme covering the entitynot published
- Compensation ceiling per clientnot published
- Auditor of the client money accountsnot published
Licences we checked ourselves
This is the part of the page that rests on evidence: each licence number was read from the regulator's own public register on the date shown.
FxPro Global Markets Limited
- CySEC (CY) — 078/07 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FCA (GB) — 509956 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
Capital.com
- ASIC (AU) — 513393 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
- CySEC (CY) — 319/17 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FCA (GB) — 793714 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
HF Markets (SV) Ltd
- CMA_KE (KE) — 155 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
- CySEC (CY) — 183/12 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FCA (GB) — 801701 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
Tickmill Ltd
- CySEC (CY) — 278/15 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FCA (GB) — 717270 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FSA_SC (SC)
TF Global Markets (STL) Limited
- CySEC (CY) — 215/13 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
Eightcap
- ASIC (AU) — 391441 · 16 Sept 2026 · ↗
- CySEC (CY) — 246/14 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FCA (GB) — 921296 · 2 Sept 2026 · ↗
- FSA_SC (SC)
Frequently asked questions
Does a licence mean my money is protected?
It means a regulator authorised the entity and can be asked about it. Whether a compensation scheme covers you, and up to what amount, is a separate question our records do not answer yet.
What does segregated actually mean here?
That the broker states client money is held in accounts separate from its own working capital. We record the claim and the page we read it from; we do not audit the accounts.
How this ranking is put together
The order on this page is the research desk's published score for the whole broker, tie-broken by the number of licences we verified against a regulator's own register. It is not a score for this category, because we have not measured this category.
- Every licence is read on the regulator's own register, and the date we read it is printed beside it
- A product term is only marked available or not offered when the desk checked it and cited a source
- A term nobody has checked stays labelled as unchecked rather than being dropped from the page
- Written-in values exist only where the research hub publishes no field, and each one is labelled where it appears
Read the full methodology, including every page that carries a written-in value
What this page established, and what it did not
This page ranked brokers on the score the research desk publishes for the whole firm, and showed the licence trail behind each one. That much is checked: every licence number here was read on the regulator's own register, on the date printed beside it.
It did not establish who is best for Fund safety and segregation. No field on this site measures that yet, so the page marks the gap instead of filling it, and labels every value that was written in rather than checked. Treat the order as a starting point for your own checks, not as a recommendation.
Other broker pages on this site
Each one states its own criterion and its own gaps.
Who did the work on this page
This page is compiled by the traderpublic research desk from the broker records published on this site. The desk reads regulator registers and brokers' own terms pages, and records the date of every reading.
On this page the desk verified the licence trail of every broker listed, and published a score only where it had one to publish.
We publish no individual byline for a compiled category page. The work is the desk's, and naming a single author would suggest a judgement one person made.
