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GTS: FCA licence 667904

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Confirmed on the register
Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Dealing in securities
Last checked
Oct 9, 2026

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Financial Conduct Authority 667904

Wikilix read the FCA register on Oct 9, 2026. This is what it said.

Holder
GTS
Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Name on the register
GTS Securities Europe Ltd
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Dealing in securities
Effective
Dec 29, 2015
Register status
Authorised
Permissions
Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments · Dealing in investments as agent · Dealing in investments as principal · Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments · Managing investments · Agreeing to carry on a regulated activity

Checked Oct 9, 2026

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Checked

What we checked

We found this licence on the issuing authority's own register.

Wikilix check
Confirmed on the register
Authority strength
Tier 1
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Last checked
Oct 9, 2026
Register says
Authorised

Finding

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.

Verification note

Confirmed on the FCA register as GTS Securities Europe Ltd (Regulated). Website/domain: the firm record prints Website "www.gtsx.com", the same domain as the broker's mainWebsite "https://gtsx.com"; corroborated by the record's contact email "compliance@gtsx.com". The register records the licence as effective from 29 December 2015.

In detail
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About this FCA licence

What this authorisation is, what it establishes, and what it leaves open.

The United Kingdom authorisation behind the GTS brand sits with a separate British company. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lists GTS Securities Europe Ltd on its Financial Services Register under firm reference number 667904, recorded as Authorised since 29 December 2015 and in that state when this check was made.

The FCA is the United Kingdom's statutory conduct regulator, not a company registry or a trade body, and the Register is its list of firms permitted to carry on regulated activities. The record is of the Type the FCA calls Regulated, meaning the firm holds its own permission rather than acting as an appointed representative under another firm's. Its permissions cover arranging deals in investments, dealing as agent and as principal, making arrangements with a view to transactions, managing investments, and agreeing to carry on a regulated activity.

An entry establishes that permission exists. It is not a statement about solvency or conduct. The scope here is narrower than the activity list alone suggests: every activity is limited to Eligible Counterparty and Professional customers, and a requirement effective 7 April 2021 allows the firm to control but not hold client money. The authorisation belongs to this entity and does not automatically cover every site the brand operates.

The register printed a London address at 5 Cheapside, a telephone number, the address compliance@gtsx.com, the website www.gtsx.com, and Companies House number 09148018. It printed no expiry date: a UK authorisation runs until cancelled or withdrawn. No investment advice permission appears among the activities shown.

This can be repeated by searching 667904 or the firm name at register.fca.org.uk and opening the firm record. The answer would change if the status moved away from Authorised, if the client money requirement or permissions were varied, or if the company were renamed.

Written from what the issuing authority's own register published when we last read it. It describes a record, not the firm's conduct, and it is not advice.
The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Licence number
667904
Issued to
GTS Securities Europe Ltd
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Dealing in securities
Register status
Authorised
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Permissions
Arranging (bringing about) deals in investmentsDealing in investments as agentDealing in investments as principalMaking arrangements with a view to transactions in investmentsManaging investmentsAgreeing to carry on a regulated activity
Registered address
Argyll - Octagon Point 5 Cheapside Offices 507-508 London EC2V 6AA UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone
+44 7849130013
The authority

About FCA

Financial Conduct Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is United Kingdom.

Full name
Financial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Strength
Tier 1The strictest regimes: high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Established
2013
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
108 firms
Regulates
Forex, Bond, Stocks, Fund, Options, Derivatives, Commodity, Loan, Retail Investment
Licences it issues
MiFID Investment Firm – Dealing on Own Account / Matched Principal (retail & market-making CFDs)
Typical cost of a licence
£100000+ (including compliance setup)
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High
Protection

What this licence protects

FCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how GTS applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against GTS. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker
GTS
Named on the register
GTS Securities Europe Ltd
Based in
United States
Wikilix score
59.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches GTS Securities Europe Ltd. below.

  • GTS Securities, LLCUnited States · Reg. 4627396 · Nov 26, 2008
  • GTS Execution Services, LLCUnited States · Mar 9, 2018
  • GTS Securities Europe Ltd.Matches the registerUnited Kingdom · Reg. 09148018 · Jul 25, 2014
Provenance

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Last checked by Wikilix
Record last edited
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Also on record

Other licences GTS holds

3 other licences are on record for GTS.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions

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. There is nothing published to compare against 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.

Licence 667904 was issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial authority for United Kingdom.
GTS holds this FCA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the FCA register. Note that confirming a register ENTRY is not the same as confirming a live licence — the register’s own wording on this page is what states its current standing.
The FCA register prints it under GTS Securities Europe Ltd, not GTS. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates FCA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
This page links straight to the FCA register. Search it for 667904, and for the name GTS Securities Europe Ltd rather than the trading brand.
GTS has 3 other licences on record with Wikilix, across one jurisdiction. They are listed further down this page.
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