Not applicableNo retail score: this firm does not serve individual traders.Why: No retail score applies because our investigation found it is not a broker.
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No retail score applies because our investigation found it is not a broker.
We checked GTS on 2026-10-23 across its regulation, company record, client terms, trading offer and service, and could verify 81% of its record. Its strongest valid licence is FCA 667904, with 3 more valid. No retail score applies because our investigation found it is not a broker. What would move the score: withdrawal rails, all-in eurusd cost, instrument breadth. Our published investigation found it is not a broker, with 20.2 years of track record. Its client terms carry moderate risk, with 1 critical clause.
Whether a financial authority supervises this broker: the licences it holds, whether we verified them on the official register, how strong that regulator is and what protection it gives clients. Worth 35 points of 100.
Identity
Who is behind it, and for how long?
98out of 100
Excellent
Counts for 15% of the score100% checked
What we checked
Registry-verified entity100
Company registration verified on the registry · Oct 9, 2026Source
Verified age100
Verified track record 20.2 years · Oct 9, 2026
Transparency90
Scam check identity transparency 1/10 · Oct 9, 2026
Site integrity100
Website reachable and not redirecting · Oct 9, 2026Source
What this measures
Who is behind it and for how long: a company registration we verified, years of verified history, how openly it names its entity, address and owners, and whether its website is intact. Worth 15 points.
Client terms
Are the client terms fair?
56out of 100
Fair
Counts for 15% of the score80% checked
What we checked
Policy risk45
Policy risk score 5.5/10 · Oct 9, 2026
Critical clauses80
1 critical clause(s) · Oct 9, 2026
Withdrawal railsNot checked yet
No withdrawal rails recorded
Language parity70
2 contradiction(s) between language versions · Oct 9, 2026
What this measures
How fair the client agreement is: the risk found in our policy review, the number of critical clauses, withdrawal rules, and whether the terms say the same in every language. Worth 15 points.
Trading offer
What does trading cost, and is it disclosed?
38out of 100
Poor
Counts for 20% of the score25% checked
What we checked
All-in EURUSD costNot checked yet
No EURUSD spread known
Pricing disclosed per account type0
0 of 3 pricing cells filled across 1 account type(s) · Oct 21, 2026Source
Instrument breadthNot checked yet
No instrument counts known
PlatformsNot checked yet
No trading platform recorded
Leverage vs regulated capNot checked yet
Maximum leverage unknown
Minimum depositNot checked yet
Minimum deposit unknown
What this measures
What trading costs and how clearly it is disclosed: pricing per account type, the all-in cost of EURUSD, instruments, platforms, leverage against regulated limits and the minimum deposit. Worth 20 points.
Service
How do they treat clients?
62out of 100
Fair
Counts for 15% of the score90% checked
What we checked
Fund-integrity complaints90
Scam check withdrawal complaints 1/10 · Oct 9, 2026
Support channels33
2 of 6 support checks (phone, email, 24/7 chat, 2+ languages, messenger, complaints email) · Oct 9, 2026
Reputation footprint60
Scam check reputation 4/10 · Oct 9, 2026
WIKILIX communityNot checked yet
0 approved review(s), fewer than 10
What this measures
How clients are treated: support channels, complaints about withdrawals and reputation from our investigation, and reviews by WIKILIX members. Worth 15 points.
What GTS legally published, but does not want you to read
Wikilix contract reading ·
Moderate contract risk
GTS Securities LLC deals spot FX as a principal, for its own account, with institutional counterparties rather than retail clients. Its FX disclosure lets GTS hand back a trade it has already accepted, and lets your order data feed its own trading. GTS alone sets the price, the hold time and the rejection rule. GTS publishes no client agreement, no privacy notice and no complaints procedure.
1Critical clausesClauses that can cost you money you have already earned or deposited, or that remove your ability to challenge it.
12Clauses flaggedEvery clause worth knowing about, at all three severities. Ordinary terms that every broker has are not counted.
3Documents readHow many of the broker’s own legal files this reading is based on. Each one was downloaded and hashed on the date shown.
5.5/10Contract riskHow far this contract goes overall, from 0 to 10. 3 to 5 means real costs a client should know about; 6 to 8 means several clauses put money already earned at risk.
What Wikilix has recorded about GTS: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
GTS Broker Overview
GTS is the trading brand of a United States securities group that operates through three named companies: GTS Securities, LLC and GTS Execution Services, LLC, which the firm's own site notice names as the providers of its broker-dealer services in the United States, and GTS Securities Europe Ltd., which it describes as undertaking certain regulated activities in Europe. The business is run from the United States and its website is . The single account type recorded for GTS is an institutional one, and no retail trading terms are published for it: no minimum deposit, no maximum leverage, no spread and no commission schedule.
GTS Regulation and License
GTS Securities, LLC is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a broker-dealer under file number 8-68126. The registration has been effective since 17 February 2009 and the register recorded it as approved at the last check. Examination is delegated to FINRA, which carries the same firm as CRD 149224 and classifies it as a brokerage firm regulated from its Florida district office. A second group company, GTS Execution Services, LLC, holds a broker-dealer registration of its own under file number 8-70455.
GTS Securities Europe Ltd. is authorised by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under firm reference 667904, confirmed on the FCA register as Authorised since 29 December 2015. Its permissions cover dealing in investments as principal and as agent, arranging deals and managing investments, and every permission is limited to Professional clients and Eligible Counterparties. A requirement in force since 7 April 2021 says the firm may control but must not hold client money.
Is GTS Regulated?
Yes, for institutional business. GTS Securities, LLC holds a live SEC broker-dealer registration, and GTS Securities Europe Ltd. holds FCA authorisation 667904. Neither is a retail forex or CFD authorisation: the FCA permissions cover only Professional clients and Eligible Counterparties.
GTS Securities, LLC
The registration behind the GTS brand belongs to GTS Securities, LLC and not to the brand itself, which matters to anyone trying to check the firm. GTS Securities, LLC is also named in the firm's foreign exchange disclosures as the principal for GTS spot FX transactions. GTS Execution Services, LLC is the second United States company and holds its own registration, and GTS Securities Europe Ltd. is the group's United Kingdom company. GTS Securities, LLC is a Delaware company, file number 4627396, formed on 26 November 2008. GTS Securities Europe Ltd. is an active English company, Companies House number 09148018, incorporated on 25 July 2014. GTS Execution Services, LLC was formed in Delaware on 9 March 2018, according to its FINRA record, and no state file number is recorded for it.
GTS License 8-68126
File number 8-68126 is the SEC broker-dealer registration of GTS SECURITIES LLC in the United States, effective from 17 February 2009 and carrying no expiry date, because a United States broker-dealer registration runs from approval until it is withdrawn or revoked. Readers can confirm this by searching the file number on FINRA BrokerCheck or by looking it up in the SEC's own list of active broker-dealers. A registration of this kind establishes that the company is registered to deal in securities and nothing further: it is not a statement about execution quality and not a guarantee about client money.
Is GTS Safe?
The firmest point in GTS's favour is that its operating company's registration is real, checkable on the regulator's own register, and has stood since 2009. Against that, the register's record for the firm carried 38 disclosure events at the last check, all of them regulatory rather than customer disputes. Registration is not safety, and with no published retail trading terms there is little else for a retail reader to weigh.
GTS Account Types
GTS offers no retail trading account. Its website describes market making and trade execution for financial institutions, broker-dealers and listed companies. One institutional entry is recorded, with no published minimum deposit, leverage, spread or commission. GTS trades on its own proprietary technology and through electronic trading platforms, and its affiliate GTS Execution Services runs an execution platform for institutional traders. The site names no MetaTrader or other retail trading platform.
GTS Support
GTS can be reached by telephone on 212.715.2830 and by email at info@gtsx.com, with media enquiries at media@gtsx.com. Support is in English and no live chat is listed. The firm gives two New York offices, at 625 Sixth Avenue and at 40 Wall Street, and three in Florida, in Miami, Jupiter and Naples.
GTS Pros and Cons
A United States broker-dealer registration confirmed on the regulator's own register and in place since 2009.
The operating companies are named openly, with company registrations on record: Delaware file 4627396 for GTS Securities, LLC and Companies House 09148018 for GTS Securities Europe Ltd.
Direct telephone and email contact, and several named United States offices.
The UK company's FCA authorisation 667904 covers only Professional clients and Eligible Counterparties, so retail traders get no FCA retail protections.
No retail trading terms are published: no minimum deposit, no leverage cap, no spread and no commission schedule.
The register's record for the firm carries 38 regulatory disclosure events.
GTS Review and Assessment
GTS is a United States securities operation whose central verifiable fact is the SEC broker-dealer registration held by GTS Securities, LLC under file number 8-68126. What its own profile does not show is a retail trading venue: there is no published minimum deposit, no leverage cap and no cost schedule to compare against a retail broker. Anyone approached about a retail GTS trading account should establish which company would be holding the money and check that company on its regulator's register before funding anything.
Website archive
Captured
Website snapshots
8 full-page captures of GTS's own site, archived so what they said can still be read after the pages change.
GTS holds a tier-1 or tier-2 licence that we confirmed on the regulator's own register. Each licence below opens its record of what that register says.
4 of 4 checked
Licences on recordEvery licence or registration recorded for this broker, whether the broker claims it or our check found it.
4
Confirmed on registerLicences we located on the issuing regulator's own public register, with a screenshot taken at the time.
4
Tier 1 or 2Licences from tier-1 or tier-2 authorities (FCA, ASIC, CySEC and peers), the strongest client protection. A registration we could not confirm as a licence is not counted.
4
OffshoreLicences from offshore registers, which typically carry no compensation scheme and lighter oversight.
0
WIKILIX
Licence intelligence
The strongest of 4 licences on file
Licence Verification Record
Financial Conduct Authority667904
Wikilix read the FCA register on Oct 9, 2026. This is what it said.
Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
Managing investments
Agreeing to carry on a regulated activity
What our check found
A full FCA authorisation held by GTS Securities Europe Ltd, covering arranging deals in investments, dealing in investments as agent and dealing in investments as principal. Every permission is limited to Professional clients and Eligible Counterparties, and a standing requirement records that the firm may control but must not hold client money. Retail traders sit outside the permitted customer types, so this authorisation confers no retail trading protection and is not a retail broking licence. Effective: 29 Dec 2015.
Client protection under this licence
Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
Client money kept separate
Negative balance protection
Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
Maximum leverage1:30
These are the rules FCA sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how GTS applies them, or about which of its companies would hold your account.
A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
Named as accepted — not a full list of served markets
USUnited States
How we know — 11 sources
1No country restriction policy is published anywhere on the broker's own website. The paths that would normally carry one all return a page not found response (/terms, /terms-and-conditions, /terms-of-use, /legal, /client-agreement, /documents), and the site publishes no client agreement or terms document, as either a page or a file.
2The standing legal and disclosure documents the site does publish were read in full and none of them contains a country, jurisdiction, residency, eligibility or sanctions clause: https://gtsx.com/fxdisclosures/, https://gtsx.com/disclosures-and-disclaimer/, https://gtsx.com/order-handling-disclosures/, https://gtsx.com/order-handing-protocols/ and https://gtsx.com/finra-rule-5270-disclosure/. The only restriction wording in them concerns order handling and limits on a client's trading activity, not where a client is resident.
3No dedicated countries page exists: /restricted-countries, /prohibited-countries, /accepted-countries and /where-we-operate all return page not found, the site publishes no FAQ or help centre, and a search of the site itself for restricted countries, jurisdiction and Iran returns no results.
4No account registration flow is published, so there is no onboarding country list to read. The site's own page index at https://gtsx.com/sitemap_index.xml lists no account opening page, no client portal is linked from any page, and the only form on the site is the general enquiry form at https://gtsx.com/contact-us/, whose single dropdown offers Careers or Investors. This fits the business the site describes, where dealing is arranged with a GTS representative rather than through a web signup.
5No anti money laundering policy, know your customer policy, deposit or withdrawal page, and no partner or introducing broker terms are published: every corresponding path returns page not found.
6The site wide footer disclaimer, carried on every page including https://gtsx.com/, states that broker dealer services are provided in the United States by GTS Securities, LLC and GTS Execution Services, LLC, each an SEC registered broker dealer and member of FINRA, and that certain regulated activities are undertaken in Europe by GTS Securities Europe Ltd., a firm authorized and regulated by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. It names no jurisdiction the site is not directed at.
7United States is recorded as accepted on that footer wording, which is the broker's own statement that it provides broker dealer services there. Europe is named as a region, not as countries, and the United Kingdom appears only as the home of the authority regulating the European entity, so no European country is in either list.
8No jurisdiction is recorded as blocked. Nothing on the broker's own site names a country it refuses, and no category wording such as sanctioned jurisdictions, prohibited jurisdictions or restricted jurisdictions appears anywhere on it, so there is nothing to classify as either confirmed or likely blocked. An absent restriction is not treated as acceptance.
9The site publishes English only: it declares no alternate language versions, and the /en, /fa and /fa-ir prefixes all return page not found. No page on the broker's domain mentions Iran, Persian language service or rial funding methods, so Iran is in neither list.
10The offices the site lists are not an onboarding list, so they add no country to either list: https://gtsx.com/locations/ gives New York and Florida addresses, and the international footprint at https://gtsx.com/careers/#map names Kitchener in Canada, London in England, Montevideo in Uruguay, Tel Aviv in Israel and Warsaw in Poland. Those say where staff are based, not whose business is accepted.
11The entity and authority names above come from the broker's own published statement, not from regulator filings.
Websites
Global Domains
One domain on record. All active and served over HTTPS.
1 domain
gtsx.comMain siteActiveHTTPS
Social channels
Social Presence
One official channel on record.
1 channel
Legal entities
Corporate Network
3 legal entities behind the GTS brand.
3 entities
GTS Securities, LLCActiveUnited States·Registration 4627396·Established Nov 26, 2008The firm's own site notice names this entity, with GTS Execution Services, LLC, as a provider of its broker-dealer services in the United States, and its FX disclosures name it as the principal for GTS spot FX transactions.
GTS Execution Services, LLCActiveUnited States·Established Mar 9, 2018The firm's own site notice names this entity, with GTS Securities, LLC, as a provider of its broker-dealer services in the United States.
GTS Securities Europe Ltd.ActiveLicence holderUnited Kingdom·Registration 09148018·Established Jul 25, 2014Holds FCAThe firm's own site notice states this entity undertakes certain regulated activities in Europe and is authorized and regulated by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority.
Company registry check
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Company Registration
The operating company is GTS Securities, LLC. Registered in United States. Registration number 4627396.
No finding of that kind is published here. The company behind the brand, GTS Securities, LLC, holds a United States broker-dealer registration that is confirmed on the regulator's own register and has been in place since February 2009, which is a matter of public record and can be checked independently on FINRA BrokerCheck. A registration establishes that a company is registered to deal in securities and vouches for nothing beyond that.
GTS publishes no cost schedule. No spread type, average spread, commission or fee is recorded for it. Its costs cannot be compared with a retail broker's pricing.
GTS is based in the United States. It lists two New York offices, at 625 Sixth Avenue and at 40 Wall Street, and three in Florida, in Miami, Jupiter and Naples. Its United States registration record gives a main office in Miami, Florida and a mailing address on Avenue of the Americas in New York.
GTS operates as a securities business in the United States rather than as a retail trading provider. Its own site notice names GTS Securities, LLC and GTS Execution Services, LLC as the providers of its broker-dealer services there, and its foreign exchange disclosures name GTS Securities, LLC as the principal for GTS spot FX transactions. Its European company, GTS Securities Europe Ltd., is described by the firm as undertaking certain regulated activities in Europe.
Not on the evidence of its own profile. The single account type recorded for GTS is an institutional one, with no published minimum deposit, no leverage cap and no spread or commission schedule, and its United States registration is a broker-dealer registration for dealing in securities, and its UK company's FCA permissions exclude retail clients. If you have been offered a retail GTS trading account, establish which company would be holding your money and check that company on its regulator's register before funding anything.
GTS is the brand of a United States securities group that operates through three named companies. GTS Securities, LLC and GTS Execution Services, LLC are named on the firm's own site notice as the providers of its broker-dealer services in the United States, and each holds its own registration, 8-68126 and 8-70455. GTS Securities Europe Ltd. is the group's United Kingdom company. GTS Securities, LLC is a Delaware company, file number 4627396, formed on 26 November 2008. GTS Securities Europe Ltd. is an active English company, Companies House number 09148018, incorporated on 25 July 2014. GTS Execution Services, LLC was formed in Delaware on 9 March 2018, according to its FINRA record, and no state file number is recorded for it.
GTS lists telephone and email support: 212.715.2830 for calls, info@gtsx.com for general enquiries and media@gtsx.com for media. Support is in English, and no live chat is listed. The firm gives two New York offices, at 625 Sixth Avenue and at 40 Wall Street, and three in Florida, in Miami, Jupiter and Naples.
No maximum leverage is published for GTS and none is recorded on its profile. GTS deals with financial institutions and broker-dealers, not retail traders: its US companies are SEC broker-dealers, and its UK company's FCA permissions cover only Professional clients and Eligible Counterparties, so the FCA's 1:30 retail leverage cap does not apply to GTS clients. Any leverage figure quoted to you for a GTS account should be confirmed with the company in writing before you act on it.
There is no published minimum deposit for a GTS account, and no confirmed figure is recorded for one. The only account type on its profile is an institutional one, which carries no published minimum and no published commission. Anyone who has been quoted a specific minimum deposit for a GTS account should confirm it directly with the company before paying anything.
GTS publishes no deposit or withdrawal methods, processing times or fees. Its website has no account opening page, no client portal and no payment page, and its UK company may not hold client money. Anyone asked to pay a 'GTS' account by card or e-wallet should first check which company would receive the money on its regulator's register.
GTS's operating company, GTS Securities, LLC, holds a United States broker-dealer registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission under file number 8-68126, effective since February 2009 and confirmed on the regulator's own register. GTS Securities Europe Ltd. is authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference 667904, confirmed on the FCA register as Authorised since 29 December 2015, but only for Professional clients and Eligible Counterparties, and it may control but must not hold client money. The FCA's retail protections, such as the 1:30 leverage cap and negative balance protection, therefore do not apply to GTS clients. On client money, no protection arrangement specific to GTS is published: a broker-dealer registration establishes that a company may deal in securities and is not in itself a guarantee about client funds.
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