CySEC Regulated Brokers With 10+ Years in Operation

Ninety-eight brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a licence from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission and have a recorded opening date at least ten years old. That second condition does real work: 216 brokers in total carry a CySEC licence, so this page sets aside the recently launched and the ones whose recorded status label reads as something other than regulated.

The list is ordered by WIKILIX score. Trading.com Markets UK Limited sits at the top on 82.4, then Pepperstone Group Limited on 79.9 and Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited on 72.5. The lowest score here is 32.0 and the median score is 52.35, so the range across these 98 firms is wide.

What the 98 look like

• 45 also hold an FCA or ASIC licence. Both are tier-1 authorities in our regulator table; CySEC itself is recorded as tier-2.
• 60 are regulated by two or more authorities in total.
• 47 are headquartered in Cyprus. The other 51 are not, which is why this is a licence list and not a location list.
• 34 have a recorded opening date before 2010.
• 19 record a maximum leverage of 1:30, the retail cap that applies to EU regulated entities.
• 17 record 1:1000 or higher.

That last pair is the most useful thing on this page. Windsor Brokers, recorded from 1988, shows 1:2000. eToro shows 1:30. FBS shows 1:3000. A single brand often runs a CySEC licensed European company alongside a separate offshore company, and the leverage figure is usually the clearest signal of which entity a given record describes.

How we built this list

One stored query produces it: brokers holding a CySEC licence, whose WIKILIX status label reads regulated, and whose recorded opening date is ten or more years ago. Nothing is hand-picked. Experience is derived from the opening date we hold, so a broker with no opening date on file drops out entirely rather than counting as new. The order is the WIKILIX score, descending.

The score is built from the licence records and the operating history we hold. It is not a rating of service quality and it is not a recommendation. One consequence of using recorded dates is visible at the top of the age range: the earliest date in this set is 1799, attached to J.P. Morgan, which is a corporate heritage date rather than the start of the licensed entity. That is why the page treats ten years as a threshold and ranks by score instead of ordering by age.

What a CySEC licence covers

CySEC authorises investment firms in Cyprus, an EU member state, so a licensed entity operates under MiFID II. In practice that brings the ESMA retail leverage caps and cover from the Investor Compensation Fund if the firm fails. That cover is capped, and the cap is lower than the UK FSCS equivalent, which is worth checking before assuming the two protections are interchangeable.

The licence attaches to a legal entity, not to a brand. XTB Limited, FXPRO UK Limited and Skilling Ltd each appear here under the company name recorded on the licence rather than the name on the marketing.

Before you open an account

• Look the firm up on the CySEC register of Cypriot investment firms and match the licence number.
• Check that the entity named on your client agreement is the one holding the licence, not a group company registered somewhere else.
• Compare the leverage you are offered against the 1:30 retail cap. Anything materially higher means you are not contracting with the EU entity.
• Confirm whether the firm accepts clients resident in your country before you deposit anything.

What this list does not tell you

It carries no spreads and no minimum deposits, and nothing in it describes execution or support quality, because we hold no such figures. It also does not tell you who accepts clients from where. It reflects licence records held in the WIKILIX database as of today, so confirm any individual licence on the CySEC register before you deposit.