FCA Regulated Brokers Headquartered in the UK

One hundred and thirteen firms in the WIKILIX database hold a licence from the UK Financial Conduct Authority and give a United Kingdom address as their head office. That is the whole of this list. Our records hold 252 firms with an FCA licence in total, so 139 of them are run from somewhere else and do not appear here.

Scores across the 113 run from 40.7 to 91.3, with a median of 61.7. Marex sits at the top on 91.3, opened in 2005, and also holds licences recorded with the SFC in Hong Kong and the NFA in the United States. The oldest company on the list is Bank of Scotland, whose opening date in our records is 1695, and 42 of the 113 opened before 2010. Sixty-five hold licences from two or more authorities. The other 48 carry the FCA record alone.

What this list includes, and what it leaves out

Two things decide membership: an FCA licence recorded against the company, and a UK head office. Nothing else does. This is not a list of brokers that accept clients from the UK, and it is not a judgement about any of them. It also contains firms our own records flag. Forty of the 113 carry a status label other than a clean regulated one, including 20 recorded as suspicious clones, seven marked offshore and one carrying our most serious label. Read the label on a card before you read its score.

Well-known FCA licensees you will not find here, because their head office is recorded outside the UK:

• Interactive Brokers, recorded in Hong Kong
• FOREX.com, whose entity GAIN Global Markets is recorded in the United States
• OANDA Corporation, recorded in the United States
• Saxo Bank, recorded in Hong Kong
• Exness and Skilling, both recorded in Cyprus
• Plus500, recorded in Israel

Each of those holds an FCA licence in our data. Domicile is what keeps them off this page, not licensing.

How we built this list

The page is a stored query rather than an editor's shortlist: regulator equals FCA, country equals United Kingdom, ordered by WIKILIX score. The score is a composite of what we hold on a firm, including the licences recorded against it, how long it has operated, its status label and the trading conditions we have gathered. It measures our record of a company, not the quality of its service. A firm whose FCA record or registered address changes moves on or off this page without anyone editing this text.

The eight highest-scoring entries that carry a clean status label:

Several rows show a maximum leverage of 1:1 or nothing at all. That is not a data gap in every case. Institutional brokers, banks and an insurer sit on this list alongside retail CFD names, because the FCA authorises all of them, and no retail leverage applies to most of that group.

What an FCA licence actually covers

Authorisation means a firm has met the FCA's threshold conditions and is bound by its rules on client money, conduct and reporting. Eligible claims against an authorised firm may be covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. It is not a rating, it says nothing about spreads or execution, and it does not follow a client account into an offshore affiliate of the same group. An entry on the register can also be copied. Cloned firms reuse the name, address and firm reference number of an authorised company, which is why the number has to be checked at source.

Before you open an account

• Look up the firm reference number on the FCA register and compare the address, phone number and website with the ones you were given.
• Confirm the entity named in the client agreement is the authorised one, not an affiliate with a similar name.
• Check which group entity would actually hold your account, since many firms here also hold offshore licences.
• Read the FCA warning list before you send money anywhere.

This page reflects licence and address records held in the WIKILIX database today. It does not tell you what a broker charges, how orders are filled, or whether it will take you as a client.