The 10 Longest-Established MAS Regulated Brokers

Ten firms anchor this list, the ten longest-serving brokers WIKILIX tracks that hold a licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. They come from the 33 MAS-licensed brokers in our records with at least a decade behind them, and they are ordered by the year each opened rather than by score. The oldest, Geneva's Pictet Group, has been in business since 1805. The youngest on the page, Carlyle, opened in 1987.

Age is the point here, so the order runs oldest first. Pictet leads, followed by StoneX One, trading in some form since 1866, and then T. Rowe Price, founded in 1937 and carrying the highest overall score in the group at 87.9. KGI Securities, a Singapore house licensed only by MAS, dates to 1955, and IG, the British broker many Singapore traders already know, opened in 1974. Across the wider pool of 33, the median score sits at 62.3 and 16 firms opened before the year 2000, so this is a group with genuine history rather than a couple of veterans among newcomers.

What a Monetary Authority of Singapore licence actually covers

MAS authorises firms under a Capital Markets Services licence, and that authorisation sets out how a firm may deal in capital markets products from Singapore. It is a real mark of oversight. MAS sits in the top tier of regulators, and every broker on this page holds at least that one tier-one licence. What the licence does not tell you is which products a given firm will offer you, or on what terms. OCBC Securities, MAS-licensed and trading since 1986, serves a different customer from a multi-jurisdiction CFD house like IG. Read each firm's own scope before assuming it matches what you want to trade.

Longevity is worth weighing because a broker that has traded through decades of market stress has been tested in ways a two-year-old brand has not. It has kept a licence in good standing across market cycles and met capital requirements year after year. That record is not a guarantee, and an old name can still run a weak retail arm, but it narrows the odds in a way marketing cannot.

How these ten were chosen, and the three left out

Every firm here carries a clean regulatory status in our records. Three long-standing MAS licensees were held back because their records are not clean. One is flagged as a scam report and another as a suspected clone. The third is recorded as operating without current regulation. Setting those aside leaves 30 firms in good standing across the pool, and the ten oldest of them became the page. Twenty-nine of the 33 hold licences from two or more authorities, so most of these names answer to regulators well beyond Singapore. StoneX One is registered with the NFA, FINRA, the FCA and ASIC alongside MAS.

What this ranking will not settle for you

A founding date says nothing about a firm's spreads or its funding costs, and neither appears here because we hold no verified figures for them. An MAS licence also does not mean a firm will open an account for you from where you live. Licensing and client acceptance are separate questions, and only a broker's own terms answer the second. Treat this as a starting shortlist of established, MAS-supervised names, then confirm the detail that matters to you.

• Look up the firm on the MAS Financial Institutions Directory and read the regulated activities listed on its Capital Markets Services licence.
• A long history under one regulator is not the same as a long history serving retail clients, so confirm which entity you would actually be contracting with.
• Where a firm holds several licences, find out which one covers your account, because protections differ by jurisdiction.
• Ask the broker directly whether it accepts clients from your country before you move any money.