Forex Brokers Based in the United Kingdom

216 brokers in the WIKILIX records give a registered address in the United Kingdom, and this page lists every one of them in score order. A UK address is the only thing they all share. It is not proof of an FCA licence, and it says nothing about whether a firm will take you on as a client: 114 of the 216 hold a licence from the Financial Conduct Authority, 102 do not, and 41 list no regulator at all.

That gap is why a domicile list is worth reading slowly. The register runs from Marex, the highest-scoring firm here at 91.3 and licensed by the FCA, SFC and NFA, down to shell brands that share nothing with it but a London postcode. The oldest name is Bank of Scotland, on record since 1695, followed by the asset manager Schroder from 1804 and Santander UK from 1857. Beside them sit the London Metal Exchange and the LBMA, institutions that are not retail brokers at all yet carry a UK address in the data.

What "based in the United Kingdom" means here, and what it does not

This list is built on one thing: the country recorded as a broker's headquarters. It does not filter on where a firm is licensed, and it does not filter on which nationalities it accepts. Those two questions matter more than the address for most traders, and neither can be answered from this page alone. A firm can be registered at a serviced office in London while running its live accounts through an entity in Saint Vincent or Vanuatu, and several here do exactly that.

So read the licence column, not the flag. Of the 216, 132 carry at least one tier-1 licence and 81 are authorised by two or more separate regulators, most often the FCA paired with ASIC, CySEC or SFC. At the other end, 120 firms carry a WIKILIX status flag: 51 recorded with no regulation, 37 as a suspicious clone of a licensed name, 23 as offshore, 8 as exceeding their permissions, and one, HTFX, as an outright scam. Trading Space scores 83.1 and quotes an FCA reference yet still carries a clone warning, which is the plainest reminder that a high place on a domicile list is not an endorsement.

Who you will not find here

Many of the names UK traders know best are absent, because their head office is somewhere else. A broker that serves London clients through an FCA-authorised branch while keeping its headquarters in Australia, Cyprus or Israel belongs on its home country's list, not this one. If you are choosing by licence rather than by address, the FCA's own register is where an authorisation is confirmed, and our onshore and tier-1 rankings reach the same firms from the licence side instead.

Why the address still tells you something

A UK head office puts a firm within reach of the FCA and, for the authorised entity only, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which protects eligible claims up to £85,000 if the firm fails. It also explains the leverage spread here. Recorded maximums run from 1:1, for banks and money managers such as Mizuho and GFFM, up to 1:2000 for offshore-facing brands, far above the 1:30 the FCA allows on UK retail forex. That high figure almost always belongs to a non-UK entity trading under the same name.

Before you rely on a UK address

• Find the exact legal entity on the FCA register and match its firm reference number to the one the broker quotes, not just the trading name.
• Check which entity your account agreement names: a UK holding company can sit above an offshore operating company that actually holds your money.
• Confirm the leverage you are offered against the entity you sign with, since a 1:30 UK cap and a 1:500 offshore cap can share one website.
• Treat any status flag on this page as a reason to read the FCA's warnings and the firm's own disclosures before depositing.