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KQ Markets licences

One licence is on record for KQ Markets. None has been checked against an official register yet.

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At a glance

Regulation on record for KQ Markets

Counts of what is on record, not a rating. Each figure describes the register entries Wikilix holds and the checks it has run against them.

Licences on record
1
Issuing authorities
1
From tier-1 or tier-2 authorities
1
Found on an official register
0

KQ Markets has one licence on record with Wikilix, issued by one authority across one jurisdiction. One of them was issued by a tier-1 or tier-2 authority — the regimes with the strictest capital, reporting and client-money rules. None has yet been located on an issuing authority’s own register, so every entry here should be read as claimed rather than confirmed.

Issuing authorities

Jurisdictions

Licence record

Licences on record

Every licence on record for KQ Markets, strongest authority first.

1 record
A licence we could not confirm, or one a register has closed, is listed with that finding rather than left out.
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 KQ Markets applies it.
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about the licences held by KQ Markets

Answered from the register entries on this page.

Most Popular Questions

The site describes KQ Markets as an introducer of StoneX and states that CFD and securities trading is provided by StoneX Financial Ltd. On that basis the trading account and the funds behind it sit with the dealer, not with the brand you sign up through. This is worth understanding before you deposit, because the protections that matter attach to the firm actually holding the money.

The operating company has existed since 26 January 2017 according to Companies House, so the firm has a verifiable corporate history of more than eight years, trading under the KQ Markets name since its October 2019 rename.

By telephone on +44 20 8396 0352 and by email at support@kqmarkets.co.uk. The account-opening page advertises 24/5 support, and the site offers an appointment booking page for a call with a trading specialist. There is no live chat. Client accounts are managed through a separate members portal.

The firm publishes no list of restricted or accepted countries. Its documents say only that the site's information is not intended for distribution where that would breach local law, and the registration form's country selector is an unfiltered list of the whole world. In practice a UK-regulated firm introducing to a UK dealer will apply restrictions that are not written down anywhere public, so ask before applying.

The site publishes no account tiers, no comparison table and no pricing page, so WIKILIX lists no account types for this broker. That is an absence of disclosure rather than evidence that only one account exists.

The site states no withdrawal processing time, and WIKILIX found no published service standard for any channel. Because the trading account sits in a StoneX-provided environment, withdrawal timing is likely to follow that provider's process rather than a schedule KQ Markets publishes itself.

The payment channels named on the site are Visa, MasterCard, Skrill, PayPal, Neteller and bank transfer. No fee, limit or processing time is published for any of them in either direction, which is a meaningful gap: confirm withdrawal fees and timings in writing before funding an account.

Neither is published. There is no spread table, no commission schedule and no account comparison anywhere on the site, so pricing can only be seen inside the trading environment after onboarding. A 50 percent discount on futures roll-over fees is the only pricing concession stated in public.

The site advertises more than 13,500 instruments across eight asset classes: shares, indices, forex (84 or more currency pairs), commodities, gold and silver, interest rates, bonds and ETFs.

Three routes are offered: a browser-based Web Trader with TradingView-powered charting, MetaTrader 5 for Windows, Mac and smartphones, and the broker's own iOS and Android apps. MetaTrader 4 is not offered. The web platform is served from a StoneX-operated address, consistent with the introducing arrangement the site describes.

The site does not publish a maximum leverage figure. It states only that CFDs and spread bets are leveraged products and that retail positions are closed automatically at 50 percent of the margin requirement. Ask the firm in writing for the leverage applicable to your account and jurisdiction.

The homepage invites clients to place their first trades with a minimum deposit of GBP 100. No per-channel minimum or maximum is published for any payment method.

Nothing found in this review supports a scam finding. The operating company exists, is active on the UK register, trades from a real London address, publishes a working telephone number and email, names its regulator and register number, and openly discloses that execution is provided by a large FCA-authorised counterparty. The fair criticism is disclosure, not honesty: the site withholds almost every commercial term a trader needs to compare it with rivals.

The brand is operated by KQ Markets Limited, registered in England and Wales under company number 10585199. WIKILIX confirmed the entry on Companies House: the company is active, was incorporated on 26 January 2017, was previously called KQ Holding Limited until October 2019, and its registered office is 1 St. Katharines Way, London, England, E1W 1UN, the same address the website publishes.

KQ Markets has one licence record with Wikilix, issued by one authority across one jurisdiction. A licence on record means an authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
KQ Markets holds licence records issued by FCA. Each authority’s own record — its tier, jurisdiction and client-protection rules — is linked from this page.
One of the licence records held by KQ Markets comes from tier-1 or tier-2 authorities (1 tier-1, 0 tier-2). Those regimes set the strictest capital, reporting and client-money requirements.
Not yet. None of the one licence record held by KQ Markets has been located on an issuing authority’s register, so each should be read as claimed rather than confirmed. Every record links to the official register so you can check it yourself.
KQ Markets has licence records in United Kingdom. A licence applies in the jurisdiction that issued it; it does not by itself cover clients elsewhere.
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