Financial Conduct Authority. 53 of the 139 brokers in our researched set (38%) currently hold a licence from this regulator, computed live from the same dataset behind every review and ranking on this site.
| Jurisdiction | United Kingdom -- UK clients only since Brexit; no automatic EU passporting |
|---|---|
| Leverage rules | Retained the same ESMA-style retail leverage caps post-Brexit: up to 30:1 on major FX pairs, down to 2:1 on crypto CFDs. |
| Investor compensation | Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS): £85,000 per eligible retail client |
| Complaint process | A client disputes an FCA-authorised firm directly with the firm first; if unresolved within 8 weeks, the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service can review the complaint independently and its decisions are binding on the firm. |
| Official register | Search the official FCA Financial Services Register → |
See our full FCA explainer for what this licence does and doesn't guarantee. See our ranked best FCA-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.