Plus500 FSA Licence 4.1-1/18: Status & Register Check

Our check

Checked Nov 12, 2026

What we checked

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

Wikilix check: Confirmed on the register
Authority strength: Tier 2
Jurisdiction: Estonia
Last checked: Nov 12, 2026
Register says: Licensed

Finding

Estonian investment firm licence 4.1-1/18 of Plus500EE AS to deal on own account, execute and transmit orders and hold client securities, with EU and EEA cross-border rights. Client protection: Moderate to strong: EU MiFID rules, segregated client assets and the Estonian investor protection scheme. Effective: 07 Feb 2022.

Register screenshot, captured Nov 12, 2026

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: 4.1-1/18
Register status: Licensed
Effective from: Feb 7, 2022
Expires: No expiry shown

The authority

About FSA

The Financial Supervision Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Estonia.

Full name: The Financial Supervision Authority
Jurisdiction: Estonia
Strength: Tier 2Well-established regimes with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than tier 1.
Established: 2002
Oversight: A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it: 158 firms
Regulates: Forex, Stocks, Fund, Derivatives
Licences it issues: Banking; insurance; investment firm; fund manager; payment institution; e-money institution; credit intermediary
Typical cost of a licence: €125k licence + ~€730k capital
Public register: Searchable by the public
Transparency: High

FSA is classed as an offshore regime. An offshore registration can be entirely legitimate, but it typically means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.

Protection

What this licence protects

FSA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

Compensation schemeUp to €20k investor protection; deposit guarantee up to €100k
Negative balance protection
Complaints routeFinancial Supervision Authority & Financial Disputes Committee
Maximum leverage1:30

The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against Plus500. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker: Plus500 Ltd
Based in: Israel
Wikilix score: 38.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

None of these matches the name the register printed, so we do not say which one holds this licence.

PLUS500US FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLCUnited States · Financial Services · Reg. LLC_01626426 · Feb 6, 2025
PLUS500SG PTE. LTD.Singapore · Reg. 201422211Z · Dec 31, 2016
PLUS500CY LTDCyprus · Reg. HE333382 · Jun 16, 2014
PLUS500AU PTY. LTD.Australia · Reg. 153301681 · Sep 19, 2011
PLUS500UK LTDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 07024970 · Sep 21, 2009
Plus500JP証券株式会社Japan · Reg. 2010001092422 · Mar 15, 2005
Plus500SEY LtdSeychelles
Plus500EE ASEstonia
Plus500AE LtdUnited Arab Emirates
Plus500BHS LtdBahamas
Plus500CA LtdCanada
Plus500 Ltd

Provenance

Where this record came from

Every date below has already happened. We do not publish a promised next-update date, because we do not schedule per-licence re-checks.

Official source: The issuing authority’s registerPublished by the authority, not by Wikilix.
Last checked by Wikilix: Nov 12, 2026
Record last edited: Nov 12, 2026When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
Evidence held: A screenshot of the register entry is on file.