CIMA Regulated Brokers: The Full Cayman Islands Register

Twenty-two brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, and this page lists every one of them, ranked by overall score. CIMA is an offshore regulator, classed here at tier 3, so a Cayman licence sits well below what the FCA or ASIC ask of a firm. That gap is the reason to read the whole register instead of a shortlist.

The 22 split cleanly. Ten hold a CIMA licence and nothing else in our records. The other twelve carry CIMA alongside other authorities, and eight of those hold at least one tier-1 licence. Bank of Scotland, which scores 70.3 and dates back to 1695, pairs its Cayman entry with the FCA. ANZ pairs it with ASIC. BTG Pactual is recorded against eight regulators at once, from FINRA to Singapore's MAS, and Vantage holds five, including ASIC and the FCA. For firms like these the Cayman registration is a secondary line, not the licence that protects a retail client.

Six of the 22 carry a status label we assign ourselves. Two are marked offshore, one carries a noRegulation label, and three are recorded as a suspiciousClone, including an entry stored in our database as Fake Tradeview. A Cayman licence on its own does not clear any of those flags, which is why a scraped best-CIMA-broker list tends to mislead.

What a CIMA licence covers, and what this register required

This list is generated from a single filter: every active broker in the WIKILIX database recorded as holding a Cayman Islands Monetary Authority licence, whatever its status. Nothing is dropped for a low score or a flag, so what you are reading is a register rather than a recommendation. The order is the WIKILIX score, highest first. That score blends a broker's regulatory record and operating history with the other data we hold, and it does not measure a broker's spreads or the quality of its execution.

What tier-3 offshore regulation means for the reader

A tier-1 regulator such as the FCA caps retail leverage and stands behind a compensation scheme, and it publishes a register anyone can search. CIMA runs a lighter framework built for companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and the leverage recorded against this group makes the difference concrete: figures run from 1:100 up to 1:10000 for Capstone, many times the 1:30 cap a European retail client would meet. The median score across the 22 is 32.0, the full range runs from 17.5 to 70.3, and twelve of the firms opened before 2010, so a long history here is no guarantee of strong oversight.

What this list does not tell you

Holding a CIMA licence is not the same as accepting clients from your country, and this register cannot tell you who does. It also says nothing about deposit methods or spreads, and nothing about which specific entity you would actually contract with, which for several of these groups is not the Cayman company. Treat the licence as one fact to verify, not a verdict on the broker.

• Check whether the entity you sign with is the CIMA-licensed company or an unlicensed sister firm in another jurisdiction.
• Read the status flag beside any broker here first, and treat a suspiciousClone or noRegulation label as a reason to stop.
• Confirm the licence on CIMA's own public register rather than trusting a badge on the broker's website.
• Weigh a standalone Cayman licence against the eight firms here that also answer to a tier-1 authority.