73 Forex Brokers Capped at 1:30 Leverage

Seventy-three brokers in the WIKILIX records cap their maximum leverage at 1:30, and that single number is why they share this page. It is the retail ceiling built into the rules of the biggest regulators: the FCA in Britain, CySEC in Cyprus, ASIC in Australia and the EU-wide ESMA framework all hold retail forex leverage to thirty times a trader's capital. A firm listed at 1:30 here is almost always running one of those regulated retail books.

The list is ordered by overall WIKILIX score, which reflects a firm's licences and its recorded history rather than its marketing. Scores run from 84.4 at the top to zero at the bottom, with a median of 52.4. The oldest name is no fintech startup: HSBC, whose Hong Kong banking corporation dates to 1865. Nineteen of the seventy-three opened before 2010, so plenty carry a long record.

The highest-scoring firms that hold a clean regulation status:

What the 1:30 cap actually means

Leverage of 1:30 lets a trader control 30,000 units of currency for every 1,000 they put down. Regulators settled on that limit after watching retail accounts lose money faster at higher multiples. It applies to major currency pairs for retail clients, so professional accounts and some other instruments can sit at different limits inside the same company. The cap tells you how much rope the regulated entity will hand a retail trader. It says nothing about a broker's spreads or the quality of its execution, and this page does not rank those.

Well-known retail names sit next to banks and institutions. eToro's UK arm holds six separate licences, the FCA among them, and has traded since 2012. Plus500, listed in Israel and running since 2008, carries ten authorities on its record, the widest reach of any firm here. Spreadex has held its FCA licence since 1999. Thirty-four of the seventy-three hold two or more licences, and twenty-four carry an FCA authorisation, which is why so many of them also turn up on our FCA ranking.

Where these firms are based, and what that hides

Domicile clusters tightly. Twenty-six of the seventy-three are registered in Cyprus and sixteen in the United Kingdom, so more than half the page sits in just two jurisdictions. Forty-seven carry our clean regulation label. The other twenty-six do not: thirteen are marked as a suspicious clone of a licensed firm, seven as offshore, and six as showing no regulation we could confirm. Those labels are WIKILIX's own reading of the records, and a low leverage figure does not erase them.

Before you open a 1:30 account

• Check which legal entity you are signing with. A broker's UK or Cyprus company caps you at 1:30, but an offshore sister company under the same brand may advertise 1:500 and offer far less protection.
• Read the status shown beside each name. A suspicious clone flag means the firm may be trading on a licence that is not genuinely its own.
• Confirm the licence number on the regulator's own register before you deposit, not on the broker's website.
• Ask whether 1:30 applies to the pairs you actually trade, since some products are capped lower and a few sit higher.
• Treat the cap as a protection rather than a verdict: it does not promise the firm behind it is well run.

If you came here for bigger multiples, this is the wrong end of the market. Brokers advertising 1:100, 1:500 or 1:1000 fall outside this boundary, usually through offshore entities, and we rank them separately. The point of this page is the reverse: it gathers the firms that accept the strictest retail leverage limit the major regulators impose.