#1
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
RegulatedHong KongEst. 1799SFC
Regulation
License
Spread
59.1Score
Ten brokers on this page hold a licence from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and they are ordered by how long each has traded rather than by the WIKILIX score. The earliest opening date on record here is 1799; the most recent is 1976. They were drawn from the 61 SEC licence holders in our records that have operated for at least a decade, kept to firms with a clean regulation status, and ranked from oldest to newest.
Age is the whole of the ranking. The score column moves independently of it: T. Rowe Price, open since 1937, scores 87.9, while IndiaNivesh, trading since 1931, scores 35.7. A long history is a fact about a firm, not a verdict on it, and the two rarely track together.
| # | Broker | Opening year on record | Other tier-1 licences held | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.P. Morgan | 1799 | FCA, ASIC, SFC | 59.1 |
| 2 | Schroder | 1804 | FCA | 56.2 |
| 3 | Pictet | 1805 | FCA, SFC, MAS | 78.9 |
| 4 | Société Générale | 1864 | AMF, FINRA, NFA, SFC | 59.6 |
| 5 | LGT | 1920 | FCA, SFC | 56.6 |
| 6 | StoneX | 1924 | FCA, SFC | 85.7 |
| 7 | IndiaNivesh | 1931 | None beyond the SEC | 35.7 |
| 8 | T. Rowe Price | 1937 | FCA, SFC, FINRA, MAS, CIRO | 87.9 |
| 9 | PhillipCapital | 1975 | FINRA, ASIC | 59.2 |
| 10 | KKR | 1976 | FCA, SFC | 55.8 |
What an SEC registration actually covers
The Securities and Exchange Commission oversees securities activity in the United States: broker-dealers, investment advisers, exchanges, and the disclosures public companies must file. It does not run the country's retail foreign exchange market. That responsibility sits with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association, so an SEC entry on its own shows a firm is cleared for securities business, not that it operates a retail forex desk. Only one of these ten, Société Générale, also carries an NFA licence in our records.
Why the list is ranked by founding date
Most SEC broker lists rank by a star rating or by trading costs. This one answers a narrower question: which registered firms have been open the longest. Longevity is not proof of good service, but a firm that has reported to a regulator across decades has a paper trail a two-year-old brand cannot show. Eight of the 61 qualifying firms opened before 1950, and 21 opened before 1990, so there was a real field to rank.
How the ten were selected
- An active licence from the United States SEC on record, matched to that regulator rather than a similarly named authority elsewhere.
- At least ten years of trading, measured from the opening date we hold.
- A clean regulation status, which is why KEB Hana Bank, open since 1971, sits outside the ten despite its age.
- Ranked oldest first, with the WIKILIX score shown for context only.
What this list does not tell you
It does not tell you where you can open an account. Several of these are institutional houses: J.P. Morgan and Pictet are recorded under Hong Kong and Swiss addresses, and their SEC registration covers US-facing securities work rather than a retail sign-up page. The list carries no spreads, no minimum deposits and no platform detail, because none of that is part of what an opening date or a licence record holds. Confirm any registration on the SEC's own register before you act on it.
10brokers on this list
Researched & ranked by the Wikilix team
- #2
Schroder
RegulatedUnited KingdomEst. 1804FSA
RegulationLicenseSpread56.2Score - #3
Pictet Group
RegulatedSwitzerlandEst. 1805SFC
RegulationLicenseSpread80.4Score - #4
SOCIETE GENERALE
RegulatedChinaEst. 1864AMF
RegulationLicenseSpread59.9Score - #5
LGT Bank AG
RegulatedHong KongEst. 1920FINMA
RegulationLicenseSpread56.6Score - #6
StoneX Group Inc.
RegulatedUnited StatesEst. 1924FCARegulationLicenseSpread85.7Score - #7
IndiaNivesh
RegulatedIndiaEst. 1931SEC
RegulationLicenseSpread35.7Score - #8
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc
RegulatedUnited StatesEst. 1937SFC
RegulationLicenseSpread87.9Score - #9
PhillipCapital
RegulatedSingaporeEst. 1975FINRA
RegulationLicenseSpread59.2Score - #10
KKR Capital Markets Limited
RegulatedUnited KingdomEst. 1976FCA
RegulationLicenseSpread55.8Score
This ranking is a snapshot of opening dates as our records stand today, not a fixed order. If an older SEC-registered firm is added, or one of these loses its licence, the list is rebuilt and the order can move. We reconcile the licence records against the SEC's public filings on a regular cycle, so a firm that changes status here should change on the regulator's register too.
To compare on regulation rather than age, a few neighbouring rankings go deeper on a single authority. The top FCA brokers and top ASIC brokers rank tier-1 licence holders by score, the SFC list covers Hong Kong, and the longest-established CySEC brokers apply this same age-first method to a different regulator. For United States securities coverage, the SEC's filings remain the primary source; treat every name above as a pointer to verify, not a substitute for that check.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions
Answers from the Wikilix research team about this ranking.
Most Popular Questions
Because the page answers a track-record question, not a best-broker one. A firm that has reported to regulators across decades leaves a longer paper trail than a recent brand, and that history is what founding date captures. Score measures something else, and the two do not align: the ten here range from 35.7 to 87.9 in no particular order. Ranking by age keeps the list honest about what it measures.
Use the SEC's own resources. Investment advisers appear in the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure system, and broker-dealers can be looked up through FINRA BrokerCheck, both free and public. Search the firm's legal name rather than a brand: several entries here, such as Société Générale and KKR, trade under group names that differ from the entity holding the licence. Confirm the registration is current before you deposit.
T. Rowe Price, at 87.9, holds the highest WIKILIX score on the list, with StoneX close behind at 85.7 and Pictet at 78.9. Because the ranking follows founding date rather than score, the numbers do not climb in order: IndiaNivesh, open since 1931, scores 35.7 while sitting seventh. Age and score are separate measures here.
No. The SEC registration covers US-facing securities activity, not where a firm keeps its head office. On record, J.P. Morgan and LGT sit under Hong Kong addresses, Pictet under a Swiss one, and Schroder and KKR under UK ones. StoneX and T. Rowe Price are the ones recorded as United States firms. Where you can actually open an account depends on each firm's own terms.
This list cannot answer that on its own, because it is built from SEC securities registrations rather than forex authorisations. In the United States, retail forex is overseen by the CFTC and the NFA, so you would look for an NFA membership. Société Générale is the one firm here that also carries an NFA licence; for any other name, check its registrations directly before treating it as a US forex broker.
No. The Securities and Exchange Commission oversees securities business in the United States, such as broker-dealers and investment advisers, not the retail foreign exchange market. US retail forex falls to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association. Among these ten, only Société Générale also holds an NFA licence in our records, so read an SEC entry as securities clearance rather than a forex permission.
J.P. Morgan, whose opening date on record is 1799, sits first. Schroder follows at 1804 and Pictet at 1805, so the top three all trace back more than two centuries. KKR, opened in 1976, is the youngest firm to make the ten. Founding dates come from the records WIKILIX holds and are worth confirming against each firm's own filings.
Ten, selected from the 61 firms in our records that hold a United States SEC licence and have traded for at least ten years. From that pool we kept only firms with a clean regulation status, then ranked them from the oldest opening date to the newest. The score is shown beside each firm but was not used to order them.