FCA Regulated Brokers With 15+ Years of Operation

Eighty-four brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a licence from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, have been operating for at least fifteen years, and carry no adverse status label in our records. They are listed below in WIKILIX score order, from Marex at 91.3 down to NCM at 48.1.

The median score across the 84 is 61.5. Thirty-five of them opened before the year 2000, and the oldest, Bank of Scotland plc, records an opening date of 1695.

Where the boundary of this list sits

Three conditions, all read from our own records. The firm holds at least one licence issued by the Financial Conduct Authority. Its recorded opening date is 2011 or earlier, which is where fifteen years falls in 2026. And its WIKILIX status label reads "regulation", which is the label we use when nothing adverse is recorded against the firm.

That last condition does most of the work. 114 firms in our database satisfy the first two conditions. Thirty of them carry a status label that this page excludes.

Who falls just outside it

A reader expecting a complete roll of long-established FCA firms will notice absences. Santander UK plc, with a recorded opening date of 1857, is not here: our records label it "exceeded". BTIG LLC carries the same label. U.S. Bank is recorded as "noRegulation" despite holding FCA, FINRA and FinCEN entries, and ABans Global Limited carries a "suspiciousClone" flag. Those labels are WIKILIX's own. They describe what we have recorded, not any finding by a regulator, and a reader who wants one of those firms considered should read its individual page rather than treat its absence here as a verdict.

How this list was built

The query runs against the licence rows, the opening date and the status label, then sorts by WIKILIX score, descending. The score is a composite of our regulation, licence, software, spread, account-type and symbol sub-scores. It is not a rating of execution quality and not an opinion about who should hold your money. Scores here run from 48.1 to 91.3, so the bottom of this page and the top of it are a long way apart.

Sixty-seven of the 84 hold licences from two or more separate authorities. Forty-nine hold at least one tier-1 licence beyond the FCA one, counted by joining regulator short names against our own tier table and skipping the ambiguous ones: "FSA" and "SEC" each map to more than one authority in our data, so neither is counted. Thirty-three of the 84 are headquartered in the United Kingdom and twelve in the United States. Holding an FCA licence and being a British company are different facts.

What fifteen years of authorisation does not tell you

Longevity records survival, not conduct. IG Group has an opening date of 1974 and Jefferies one of 1962, and neither fact says anything about the spread you will pay or how a withdrawal request will be handled. Before you deposit anywhere:

• Look up the firm's reference number on the FCA Register at register.fca.org.uk and confirm it is authorised rather than an appointed representative.
• Check that the legal entity named in your account agreement is the entity holding the licence. Several groups here run FCA-licensed and offshore entities under one brand.
• Confirm whether your account would fall under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which does not extend to every entity in a group.
• Read the recorded maximum leverage as an upper bound across all entities. Twenty of these firms record a maximum of 1:500 or higher, which is not an FCA retail figure.

This page reflects licences, opening dates and status labels held in the WIKILIX database today. It does not tell you what any firm charges, whether it accepts clients from your country, or how it handles a dispute. Confirm any licence on the regulator's own register before you deposit.