Forex Brokers Based in the Cayman Islands

Eight brokers on WIKILIX give a Cayman Islands address as their registered home, and that address is the only thing this page selects on. It says surprisingly little about how any of them is supervised. Only three of the eight hold a licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, the territory's own regulator, and just two carry a clean regulation status. The rest are licensed somewhere else, or hold no licence we can see at all.

That gap is the reason to read this page instead of another list of "CIMA brokers". A registered office in George Town tells you where a company was incorporated. It does not tell you which entity you would open an account with, nor which regulator stands behind your deposit.

What a Cayman registered office does and does not tell you

The Cayman Islands is a company-formation hub, so a Cayman address is common and cheap to hold. Three assumptions people draw from it are worth separating. The first is regulation: only LION, TRADEVIEW MARKETS and Praxis appear on record with a CIMA licence, and Praxis holds that licence while still carrying a no-regulation status. The second is where the trading entity sits, because TOP1 GROUP and TOPONE Markets are Cayman-registered but book business through an Australian ASIC company, so the firm you contract with is not Caymanian at all. The third is client acceptance, which a domicile never settles and this list cannot show.

The brokers you might expect here, and why they are missing

Most results for this territory are lists of CIMA-regulated brokers, sorted by licence. They pull in firms headquartered in Belize, Saint Vincent or Australia that happen to hold a Cayman licence. This page starts from the registered address instead, which is why a heavily marketed CIMA-licensed brand can be absent while MAKE CAPITAL, licensed in Australia and South Africa rather than Cayman, is present. If you arrived looking for the safest Cayman broker, weigh this first: six of these eight carry a cautionary status. Two hold a suspicious-clone flag, three are marked no-regulation and one is flagged offshore. Only TOP1 GROUP and TOPONE Markets show a clean regulation status.

What an offshore base means for the money you deposit

A CIMA licence carries real duties, including a standing capital deposit and rules on segregating client money. Those protections only reach you if the entity holding your account is the licensed one. Four of these eight firms hold two or more separate authorisations, so a single brand can run a lightly supervised Cayman shell beside a stricter licence elsewhere, and the account you are handed decides which rules apply. Leverage is a useful tell. MAKE CAPITAL advertises up to 1:2000 and PBFX up to 1:1000, ceilings no onshore regulator in this group would allow, which points to where those accounts are really booked.

Checks worth making before you open an account

• Read which legal entity the account agreement names, then match it to the licence that entity holds, not to the group's Cayman address.
• If the pitch leans on CIMA oversight, confirm the licence number on the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority register and check it is still current.
• Treat leverage far above 1:100 as a sign the account sits under an offshore entity, whatever the headline domicile says.
• For the two Australian-booked names, check the ASIC entity is the one taking your deposit before you rely on Australian protection.
• Where a firm carries a suspicious-clone flag, such as TRADEVIEW MARKETS or MAKE CAPITAL, make sure you are dealing with the licensed original and not a copied brand.

These figures reflect the licences WIKILIX has on record today, ranked by overall score, from LION at 58.1 down to a single firm carrying no score at all. Confirm any licence on the issuing regulator's own register before you deposit.