CySEC Regulated Brokers: The Complete Register

Two hundred and seventeen brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a licence recorded against the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). This page is the complete register of every one of them, ordered by WIKILIX score, and it keeps the entries a "best CySEC broker" list quietly drops: the 47 we have flagged as suspicious clones, the 3 recorded as scams, and the 19 running offshore of the licence they advertise.

That mix is the point. CySEC is one of the most impersonated regulators in retail trading, and the single highest score on this register, 82.4, belongs to LMAX International Ltd, an entry we have flagged as a suspicious clone rather than a firm we can vouch for. Here the status label matters more than the score, so read it on every card before you read the name.

What this register counts, and what a CySEC licence is

CySEC authorises Cyprus Investment Firms, or CIFs, and as an EU regulator it binds them to ESMA rules: segregated client money and negative balance protection on retail accounts, backed by the Investor Compensation Fund. WIKILIX classifies CySEC as a tier-2 authority, not the tier-1 badge some marketing pages give it. A licence on a card here means we hold a CySEC registration for that entity. It does not mean every product that entity sells falls under that licence, and that gap is where the offshore entries come from.

Of the 217, 137 carry our clean regulation status. The rest are recorded like this:

How old, and how heavily licensed, the register runs

Scores span 32.0 to 82.4, with a median of 51.0, so half the register sits below a fairly ordinary mark. Age is where the spread widens. The oldest entry is J.P. Morgan, carrying a recorded opening date of 1799, followed by Japan's Shizuoka Tokai in 1951 and Cyprus-based Windsor Brokers in 1988, while 57 of the 217 opened before 2010. Licensing runs deep too. 143 of the 217 hold registrations from two or more regulators, Interactive Brokers with eleven and Plus500 with ten among them, while the remaining 74 are recorded against CySEC alone. Maximum leverage stretches from 1:1 to 1:3000, though the biggest caps sit on offshore sister entities, not the Cyprus firms ESMA holds to 1:30.

Before you trust any entry on this register

• Match the CIF number on the card against CySEC's own public register. A verifiable CIF number is the only proof the licence is real.
• Check which legal entity you would actually open with. The same brand can appear here as a Cyprus CIF and as an offshore company, and only the CIF sits inside CySEC's protection; Admirals, for one, appears once clean and once flagged offshore.
• Confirm the Investor Compensation Fund and negative balance protection apply to your specific account, not only to the group's EU arm.
• Treat a suspicious-clone or scam flag as a full stop, not a caution. Those labels mark entities whose CySEC claim we could not reconcile.

This register says nothing about spreads, execution quality or minimum deposits, none of which we hold for these firms. It also cannot tell you whether a given broker accepts clients from your country, which each firm decides for itself and states in its own terms. Confirm every licence on the CySEC register before you deposit, because the labels here reflect what the WIKILIX database records today.