Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. 95 of the 139 brokers in our researched set (68%) currently hold a licence from this regulator, computed live from the same dataset behind every review and ranking on this site.
| Jurisdiction | Cyprus, with full EU/EEA passporting rights under MiFID II |
|---|---|
| Leverage rules | ESMA-aligned retail leverage caps: up to 30:1 on major FX pairs, down to 2:1 on crypto CFDs. |
| Investor compensation | Investor Compensation Fund (ICF): €20,000 per eligible retail client |
| Complaint process | A client disputes a CySEC-licensed firm directly with the firm first; if unresolved, CySEC itself and the Financial Ombudsman of the Republic of Cyprus both take complaints against licensed Cyprus Investment Firms. |
| Official register | Search CySEC's official register of Cypriot Investment Firms → |
See our full CySEC explainer for what this licence does and doesn't guarantee. See our ranked best CySEC-regulated brokers list.
Legal entity is shown only where this broker holds exactly this one of the regulators we track per-entity (CySEC, FCA, Seychelles FSA) -- a broker holding two of these has one disclosed entity name that reliably belongs to only one of them, so we don't guess which. See the broker's own review for its full multi-entity breakdown where it holds more than one.