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WARWICK CAPITAL LIMITED
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2010FCA
Regulation
License
Spread
78.1Score
Seven brokers give a registered address in Ireland, and that address is the only thing this page selects on. Three of them hold a licence from the Central Bank of Ireland. The other four are Irish companies supervised from somewhere else, and one holds no licence at all.
That gap is the reason a domicile page is worth reading. An Irish registered office tells you where a firm is incorporated. It does not tell you who authorised it to take your money, and in Ireland the two answers part company more often than not.
What "based in Ireland" includes, and what it leaves out
Every firm below files its home address in Ireland. Only AVATRADE, AvaFutures and AvaStocks, the three arms of the Ava Trade group, carry a Central Bank of Ireland authorisation on record. WARWICK CAPITAL, the highest scored of the seven at 78.1, is Irish-registered but sits under the UK Financial Conduct Authority and Australia's ASIC. DEGIRO answers to Germany's BaFin and the FCA, while M&G, the oldest name here with a 2003 opening date, holds an FCA licence and a Hong Kong SFC one. The Irish address is shared by all seven. The Irish licence is held by three.
| Broker | Score | Opened | Licences on record |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARWICK CAPITAL | 78.1 | 2010 | FCA, ASIC |
| DEGIRO | 57.8 | 2008 | FCA, BaFin |
| M&G | 56.7 | 2003 | FCA, SFC |
| AVATRADE | 56.3 | 2008 | CBI, ASIC, FSCA, ADGM |
| AvaStocks | 54.5 | 2019 | CBI, CySEC, ASIC, ISA |
| AvaFutures | 50.2 | 2022 | CBI, ASIC, ADGM |
| DXtrade | 0 | 2020 | None on record |
Six of the seven hold at least one tier-1 licence, counting the FCA, ASIC, BaFin and SFC entries above, and six are regulated by two or more authorities. The exception on both counts is DXtrade, registered in 2020 as Devexperts Solutions IE Limited, which carries a no-regulation status and no authority against its name. It appears here because it is Irish-registered, not because it cleared any bar the others did.
What a Central Bank of Ireland licence actually buys
Ireland is a European Union member, so a broker authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland works inside the ESMA rulebook: negative balance protection for retail clients and a leverage ceiling of 1:30 on major currency pairs, with an investor compensation scheme standing behind an authorised firm. The Ava Trade group records much higher headline numbers, 1:400 against AVATRADE and 1:300 against AvaFutures, because those figures come from its non-EU arms rather than the Irish entity. Read a leverage claim next to the licence it belongs to, not next to the address on the letterhead.
The names you might expect here, and will not find
Plenty of brokers that advertise to Irish traders never appear on this list, because they are domiciled elsewhere and passport in under an EU licence held in Cyprus, Malta or Germany. A firm can accept clients right across Ireland without keeping a single registered office in the country. If you came looking for the broker behind your local advertising, its home address may well read Limassol or Valletta, and it would sit on one of those domicile pages instead of this one.
Before you open an account with an Ireland-registered firm
- Find which legal entity your account is actually opened with. The Ava Trade group alone contracts through several, and only some of them sit under the Central Bank of Ireland.
- Match the leverage you are offered to that entity. A 1:400 figure is not coming from an EU-authorised Irish company.
- Look the firm up on the Central Bank of Ireland register before depositing, rather than trusting the Irish address on its website.
- For the FCA or BaFin names here, confirm the licence covers your own country, since an Irish registration does not extend their protection to you.
- Treat a firm with no authority on record, such as DXtrade, as unregulated whatever its address says.
This reflects the licences held on record as of today. Confirm any authorisation on the regulator's own register before you deposit, and check each firm's terms for whether it accepts clients from where you live.
7brokers on this list
Researched & ranked by the Wikilix team
- #2
AVA Trade EU Ltd.
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2008FSA
RegulationLicenseSpread62.8Score - #3
AVA Trade EU Ltd
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2019FSA
RegulationLicenseSpread58.1Score - #4
DEGIRO
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2008BaFin
RegulationLicenseSpread57.8Score - #5
M&G Investments
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2003FCA
RegulationLicenseSpread56.7Score - #6
Ava Trade Markets Ltd
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2022BVI FSC
RegulationLicenseSpread50.2Score - #7
Devexperts Solutions IE Limited
No RegulationIrelandEst. 20200.0Score
The seven firms here are ranked by overall score on the day the page was built, so the order shifts as scores are refreshed and as brokers move their registered office in or out of Ireland. WARWICK CAPITAL leads today at 78.1, and DXtrade sits last on a no-regulation status. Neither position is permanent.
If the Irish angle matters to you because of European Union rules rather than the address itself, the pages for brokers based in Cyprus, Malta and Germany cover the other EU domiciles where the firms advertising into Ireland are more likely to keep their licence. Each is built the same way, on registered address rather than on marketing claims.
To verify anything on this page, the Central Bank of Ireland keeps a public register of the firms it authorises at centralbank.ie. An address in Dublin is a starting point for a check, never the end of one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions
Answers from the Wikilix research team about this ranking.
Most Popular Questions
Yes, one. DXtrade, registered in 2020 as Devexperts Solutions IE Limited, carries a no-regulation status and lists no authority on record. The other six all hold at least one licence, and six of the seven hold a tier-1 authorisation from bodies such as the FCA or ASIC. An Irish address plainly does not guarantee a firm is licensed.
This list is built on where each broker is registered, not on where it accepts clients, so it cannot tell you whether a given firm will open an account for someone in your country. Some of these entities serve clients across the European Union and beyond, while others are more limited. Check each broker's own terms and its licence coverage for your country before signing up.
WARWICK CAPITAL, at a score of 78.1, ranks highest among the seven firms registered in Ireland. It is followed by DEGIRO at 57.8 and M&G at 56.7. The score reflects what WIKILIX holds on each firm, including its licences and recorded status, and it is the order this list uses by default.
No. A registered address in Ireland only shows where a company is incorporated. Four of the seven firms here are Irish-registered yet supervised by regulators in the UK, Germany or Hong Kong, and DXtrade holds no licence at all. Check which authority actually authorised the entity you are opening an account with, rather than reading the address as proof of regulation.
Yes. Ireland is a European Union member, which is why a broker authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland follows ESMA rules, including negative balance protection for retail clients and a leverage cap of 1:30 on major currency pairs. A high leverage figure such as AVATRADE's 1:400 comes from a non-EU arm of the group, not from the Irish entity.
Three of the seven hold a UK Financial Conduct Authority licence: WARWICK CAPITAL, DEGIRO and M&G. For those firms the FCA, rather than the Central Bank of Ireland, is the primary authority despite the Irish registered office. An FCA licence is written for UK clients, so confirm on the FCA register that it extends to your own country before you deposit.
Three do: AVATRADE, AvaFutures and AvaStocks, the three legal entities of the Ava Trade group. They are the only firms with an Irish address that also record an authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland. WARWICK CAPITAL, DEGIRO and M&G are Irish-registered but licensed by the FCA, BaFin or Hong Kong's SFC instead.
Seven brokers give an Irish registered address, and all seven are listed here. Only three of them, the AVATRADE, AvaFutures and AvaStocks entities of the Ava Trade group, hold a Central Bank of Ireland licence. The other four are Irish-registered but authorised elsewhere, and one, DXtrade, carries no licence on record at all.