Every broker shown on an EU country page holds a CySEC licence, which carries the right to passport into any EU/EEA member state under MiFID II -- but passporting is a per-country notification process, not automatic blanket access, and which products or account types are actually offered can vary by entity and by country. Four non-EU pages -- Australia, South Africa, the UAE, and Singapore -- use a different, more direct test: a broker only appears there if its own disclosed regulatory footprint confirms a licence from that country's own regulator (ASIC, FSCA, DFSA, or MAS respectively), not an EU passporting inference. We also review brokers licensed elsewhere, such as the Seychelles FSA, but those aren't ranked on any country page here. Pick a country for its top-ranked brokers plus what's actually different there -- regulator, investor compensation, leverage rules, tax treatment, local payment methods, and any broker genuinely headquartered locally.
ASIC (Australian Securities & Investments Commission)
FMA (Finanzmarktaufsicht)
FSMA (Financial Services and Markets Authority)
FSC (Financial Supervision Commission)
HANFA (Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency)
CySEC (Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission)
ČNB (Czech National Bank)
Finanstilsynet (Danish FSA)
Estonian Financial Supervision Authority (Finantsinspektsioon)
FIN-FSA (Finanssivalvonta)
AMF (Autorité des marchés financiers)
BaFin (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht)
HCMC (Hellenic Capital Market Commission)
MNB (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)
Central Bank of Ireland
CONSOB (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa)
Latvijas Banka
Bank of Lithuania
CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier)
MFSA (Malta Financial Services Authority)
AFM (Autoriteit Financiële Markten)
KNF (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego)
CMVM (Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários)
ASF (Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară)
MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)
NBS (Národná banka Slovenska)
ATVP (Agencija za trg vrednostnih papirjev)
FSCA (Financial Sector Conduct Authority)
CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores)
Finansinspektionen
DFSA (Dubai Financial Services Authority)