Forex Brokers Registered in Anguilla

Anguilla licenses no retail forex broker of its own. The territory's Financial Services Commission oversees banks, insurers and mutual funds, and it has told investors plainly that it authorises nobody to offer retail currency or options trading from the island. Eleven firms in the WIKILIX records still give Anguilla as their registered address, and this page lists every one of them, ordered by overall score. That address tells you where a company was incorporated. It does not tell you who supervises it, and for these eleven the answer is either a regulator somewhere else or none at all.

Where these eleven are actually supervised

Not one holds a licence issued in Anguilla, because no such licence exists for this business. Four carry a licence our records rank in the top tier: ACI Trading under the UK's FCA, FXCG (trading as Capstone Global Markets) under Australia's ASIC, and CentFX and PSFX through a United States FinCEN registration. A FinCEN listing is an anti-money-laundering registration rather than the kind of conduct licence the FCA or ASIC issue, so only two of those four bring real investor protection. Three firms, FreeForex, Exelium and Trader's Way, list no regulator at all. The other four hold only mid or lower tier approvals: Vida Markets under South Africa's FSCA, TradeUltra under Labuan's LFSA, and CMV Capitals and OPENTRADING under offshore commissions abroad.

What incorporating in Anguilla actually buys a broker

Anguilla company formation is fast and private, with no corporate or capital gains tax and no public register of owners. For a broker that is the appeal, and it is close to the whole of it. Where an FCA or ASIC licence brings segregated client money and a conduct rulebook backed by a statutory compensation scheme, an Anguilla registration brings an address. It shows in the numbers on this page: leverage runs from 1:400 at PSFX up to 1:5000 at Exelium, with six of the eleven set at 1:1000, ceilings no onshore regulator would sign off. ACI Trading holds the highest score here at 60.4 while still carrying an "exceeded" warning on its record, a reminder that a strong score is not a clean bill.

The offshore names that sit on other lists, not this one

Anguilla is one of several flags brokers reach for, and it is easy to assume every offshore firm you have heard of is here. Most are not. A broker whose paperwork names Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, the Seychelles or the British Virgin Islands appears on those pages instead, however similar its offering. This list is drawn strictly on the registered address WIKILIX holds, so a firm that advertises an offshore account while incorporating somewhere else will not show up above, and two brands that share a website can sit on two different pages if their paperwork points to two different islands.

Before you open an account with an Anguilla-registered firm

• Work out which legal entity you would be contracting with. An Anguilla company and a same-brand entity licensed in Cyprus or Australia are different counterparties carrying different protections.
• Check any advertised licence on the issuing regulator's own register, and note whether it names the Anguilla company or only a sister firm abroad.
• Treat the Anguilla address as meaning no local recourse: the island's Financial Services Commission does not supervise retail forex and will not step into a dispute.
• Read a 1:2000 or 1:5000 leverage ceiling as a risk signal in itself. It is on offer precisely because no onshore regulator is there to cap it.