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OANDA: NFA licence 0325821

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Confirmed on the register
Issuing authority
National Futures Association
Jurisdiction
United States
Licence type
Market Making(MM)
Last checked
Oct 23, 2026

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National Futures Association 0325821

Wikilix read the NFA register on Oct 23, 2026. This is what it said.

Issuing authority
National Futures Association
Name on the register
OANDA CORPORATION
Jurisdiction
United States
Licence type
Market Making(MM)
Effective
Mar 14, 2003
Register status
Active (NFA Member Approved, Forex Dealer Member)
Permissions
Futures Commission Merchant · Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer · Forex Dealer Member

Checked Oct 23, 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 States
Last checked
Oct 23, 2026
Register says
Active (NFA Member Approved, Forex Dealer Member)

Finding

NFA membership as a Forex Dealer Member for OANDA Corporation, the US entity serving US clients from 17 State Street, New York. Client protection: Strict US capital and conduct rules, with NFA arbitration available. Forex balances are not covered by SIPC and get no preference in a bankruptcy, as OANDA discloses. Effective: 14 Mar 2003.

Exhibit

Register screenshot, captured Oct 23, 2026

Verification note

Confirmed on the NFA register as OANDA CORPORATION (NFA membership (Forex Dealer Member designation) with CFTC registration as Futures Commission Merchant and Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer). NFA ID (licence-number key): the BASIC profile prints 'NFA ID: 0325821', which is our stored 325821 in the register's 7-digit zero-padded form. An NFA ID search for 325821 (and for 0325821) went straight to this one profile. Corroborated by the legal name OANDA CORPORATION (our fullName and United States corporates[] entry 'OANDA Corporation'; BASIC prints names in capitals) at New York, NY, United States, with OANDA listed as a Doing Business As name. The register records the licence as effective from 14 March 2003.

In detail
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About this NFA licence

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

OANDA Corporation of New York, NY, United States, the legal entity behind the OANDA brand, holds NFA ID 0325821. BASIC, the public database of the National Futures Association (NFA), showed it as NFA Member Approved as at this check on 23 October 2026, and lists OANDA and FXTRADE.COM as names it does business under.

NFA is the self-regulatory organisation for the US derivatives industry, not a licensing authority, so the seven-digit number is a membership and registration identifier rather than a licence number. The record pairs NFA membership and a Forex Dealer Member designation with two registrations granted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): Futures Commission Merchant and Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer.

Approval means the firm is admitted to NFA with those registrations current as at this check; it says nothing about solvency. BASIC lists three regulatory actions against this ID: NFA cases 25BCC00004 (13 June 2025, a $600,000 fine among its outcomes) and 21BCC00002 (16 April 2021, a $200,000 fine), and CFTC case 20-29 (21 August 2020, a cease and desist order with a $500,000 civil monetary penalty). The membership covers OANDA Corporation only: other OANDA-named entities appear under separate IDs as Not an NFA Member.

The history dates membership approval and Futures Commission Merchant registration to 14 March 2003, Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer registration to 5 October 2010 and Forex Dealer Member approval to 7 October 2010. No withdrawal or end entry appears, and BASIC prints no expiry. The firm reports having commodity interest customers and soliciting customers, and the profile counts four CFTC reparations cases and no NFA arbitration decisions.

To repeat the check, enter 0325821 in BASIC's NFA ID search at nfa.futures.org and read the banner under the firm name. A Not an NFA Member banner, a withdrawal in the history, or another firm's name against this ID would change the answer.

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

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Licence number
0325821
Issued to
OANDA CORPORATION
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Market Making(MM)
Register status
Active (NFA Member Approved, Forex Dealer Member)
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Permissions
Futures Commission MerchantRetail Foreign Exchange DealerForex Dealer Member
Registered address
17 State Street Suite 300 New York, NY 10004 United States
Telephone
18776263239
The authority

About NFA

National Futures Association is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is United States.

Full name
National Futures Association
Jurisdiction
United States
Strength
Tier 1The strictest regimes: high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Established
1982
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
2 firms
Regulates
Forex, Options, Futures
Licences it issues
RFED / FCM / IB Membership
Typical cost of a licence
USD 150000+
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High
Protection

What this licence protects

NFA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to USD 500000 (SIPC)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Complaints routeNFA Arbitration
  • Maximum leverage1:47
This describes the authority's regime, not how OANDA applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

Broker
OANDA Corporation
Named on the register
OANDA CORPORATION
Based in
United States
Operating
Above 20 years
Wikilix score
44.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches OANDA Corporation below.

  • OANDA CorporationMatches the registerUnited States · Reg. 7310534
  • OANDA EUROPE LIMITEDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 07110087
  • OANDA COINPASS LIMITEDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 11164834
  • OANDA TMS Brokers S.A.Poland · Reg. 0000204776
  • OANDA (Canada) Corporation ULCCanada
  • OANDA Asia Pacific Pte LtdSingapore · Reg. 200704926K
  • OANDA Australia Pty LtdAustralia
  • OANDA証券株式会社Japan
  • OANDA Global Markets LtdBritish Virgin Islands · Reg. 2026433
  • OANDA Assessments LimitedMalta · Reg. C 106331
  • OANDA Business Information and Services Inc.United States
Provenance

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Also on record

Other licences OANDA holds

8 other licences are on record for OANDA.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions

It depends on the OANDA company that holds your account. UK clients of OANDA Europe Limited may be covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme if the firm fails, EU clients of OANDA TMS Brokers fall under EU investor compensation rules within statutory limits, and OANDA states that accounts at its Canadian company are protected by the Canadian Investor Protection Fund within specified limits. There is no compensation scheme for a broker's failure in Australia, for CFD trading in Singapore or at OANDA Global Markets in the British Virgin Islands, and OANDA discloses that US forex balances are not covered by SIPC and get no preference in a bankruptcy.

Yes. OANDA Corporation's record on the NFA's register, checked by WIKILIX on 23 October 2026, lists three regulatory actions: NFA case 25BCC00004 of 13 June 2025, whose outcomes include a 600,000 USD fine; NFA case 21BCC00002 of 16 April 2021, with a 200,000 USD fine; and CFTC case 20-29 of 21 August 2020, a cease and desist order with a 500,000 USD civil monetary penalty. OANDA Corporation was still an approved NFA member with current CFTC registrations at that check.

In the US, yes: OANDA Paxos Mobile is a separate app for spot cryptocurrencies, offered with OANDA's partner Paxos, and the coins are held in a Paxos wallet and cannot be withdrawn directly. In the UK, OANDA COINPASS LIMITED, trading as OANDA Crypto, offers cryptocurrencies to business clients and states that it is registered with the FCA as a crypto asset firm under the UK Money Laundering Regulations, No. 921481.

On the US site, OANDA Corporation offers two: the Standard account, with no minimum deposit, and the Elite Trader program for high-volume clients. The global site of OANDA Global Markets shows three accounts in its comparison table, Standard, Premium and Premium Plus, although the same page says it offers four. Premium needs a 10,000 USD deposit or 10 million USD of monthly notional volume, and Premium Plus 50 million USD of monthly notional volume.

Elite Trader is the US site's loyalty program for clients who trade at least 10 million USD a month, with no deposit requirement of its own. It pays cash rebates of 5 to 17 USD per million traded by volume tier, or 5 to 20 USD with Elite Extra, which needs a 50,000 USD deposit or balance. It also adds a dedicated relationship manager, a free VPS and free wire transfers. Clients introduced by an introducing broker or on past pricing promotions are not eligible.

US clients can reach OANDA by web chat, WhatsApp (+1 646 566 8178), Facebook Messenger, SMS or email at frontdesk@oanda.com, from Sunday 4 p.m. to Friday 6 p.m. US Eastern time. OANDA publishes no voice support line: the numbers on its contact page, such as +1 212 858 7690 in the US and +44 7537 411919 in the UK, are SMS lines. Support is offered in English, Spanish and Mandarin, though OANDA says it cannot guarantee multilingual service at all times.

OANDA's own documents disagree. For US clients, the help centre and the charges page say withdrawals are free, but a withdrawal-fee document linked from the charges page lists 20 USD on the first wire withdrawal in a calendar month and that fee plus 15 USD on each further one, and 15 USD on each debit card withdrawal after the first in a month. For OANDA Global Markets clients, the charges page gives 20 USD per wire withdrawal while the help centre gives 20 USD for the first in a month and 35 USD for each further one; Premium and Premium Plus accounts list free withdrawals.

OANDA's US pages give 1 to 3 business days for debit card withdrawals. For wires, the funding page gives 1 to 2 business days within the US and up to 5 abroad, while the help centre gives 1 to 5 business days. These are OANDA's processing times, not the time the money takes to reach you. Other divisions give their own times, for example within one business day for Neteller and Skrill at OANDA Global Markets.

The payment methods depend on the OANDA company that holds your account. US clients deposit by debit card, wire or ACH and withdraw by debit card or wire; UK clients use cards or bank transfers such as Faster Payments and SEPA; EU clients can deposit by card, iDEAL, BLIK or Przelewy24 but withdraw only by bank transfer; and OANDA Global Markets clients can use cards, Neteller, Skrill or bank transfer. Canada adds PayPal, Australia BPAY and PayID, and Singapore PayNow and FAST, with no card payments in Singapore. Withdrawals go back to the source of the deposit, and card refunds are capped at the amount deposited by card.

On OANDA's US site pricing is spread-only by default, and the US pricing page lists spreads of 1.4 pips on EUR/USD and 2.0 pips on GBP/USD. Clients with a deposit or balance of at least 10,000 USD can switch to core pricing: spreads from 0.0 pips on selected majors plus 0.70 USD per 10,000 units on each side, or 7 USD per 100,000. The US site also charges a 20 USD monthly inactivity fee after 12 months without trading and a 1.0% mark-up on currency conversion on v20 forex accounts.

The OANDA companies belong to one group. OANDA Corporation, the US company that owns the OANDA trademarks, is a subsidiary of OANDA Global Corporation, which OANDA also names as the shareholder of its Japanese company.

That depends on where you live. According to OANDA, OANDA Corporation serves US residents, OANDA (Canada) Corporation ULC serves Canadian residents outside Alberta, OANDA Europe Limited serves the UK and a few other countries including Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein, OANDA TMS Brokers S.A. serves the EU, OANDA Australia Pty Ltd serves Australia and OANDA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd serves Singapore. Residents of selected other countries are served by OANDA Global Markets Ltd, which is regulated in the British Virgin Islands, and clients in Japan by OANDA's Japanese company through oanda.jp.

It depends on the OANDA company that holds your account. On the US site both accounts trade 68 currency pairs, and US clients can trade spot cryptocurrencies through OANDA Paxos Mobile, a separate app offered with OANDA's partner Paxos. The global site of OANDA Global Markets lists more than 1,500 instruments, and OANDA TMS in the EU runs a CFDs account alongside a stocks account.

OANDA's US site has no minimum deposit and no minimum balance to open or keep an account. Core pricing, which charges a commission in exchange for lower spreads, needs an initial deposit or balance of at least 10,000 USD. On the global site the Standard account is available to all, while Premium needs a 10,000 USD deposit or 10 million USD of monthly notional volume.

On OANDA's US site the maximum leverage is 50:1, for example on EUR/USD, which needs 2% margin. Other pairs need more margin, such as 3% on AUD/USD. Leverage depends on the OANDA company that holds your account, so these US limits do not apply to clients of its other divisions.

OANDA offers its own platform, OANDA Trade (OANDA Web in the browser and the OANDA Mobile app for iOS and Android), plus MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and TradingView, depending on the division. The US site lists OANDA Web, the mobile app, TradingView and MetaTrader 4, with an optional MT4 premium upgrade of 28 extra tools, but not MetaTrader 5. The global site offers MetaTrader 5, TradingView and the OANDA app, but not MetaTrader 4.

Yes. OANDA Corporation is a member of the National Futures Association under NFA ID 0325821 and is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a Futures Commission Merchant and Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer, all shown as current when WIKILIX checked the NFA's register on 23 October 2026. The licences of its sister companies from the FCA, the KNF, ASIC, MAS, CIRO, Japan's Financial Services Agency and the BVI Financial Services Commission were also found on those regulators' registers that day. Regulation does not make trading safe in itself: client protections differ by OANDA company, and OANDA Corporation's NFA record lists NFA fines in 2021 and 2025 and a CFTC penalty in 2020.

Licence 0325821 was issued by National Futures Association (NFA), the financial authority for United States.
OANDA holds this NFA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the NFA 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 NFA register prints it under OANDA CORPORATION, not OANDA. 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 NFA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
This page links straight to the NFA register. Search it for 0325821, and for the name OANDA CORPORATION rather than the trading brand.
OANDA has 8 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 7 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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