500 Offshore Forex Brokers With a 10-Year Track Record

WIKILIX tracks 500 forex and CFD brokers that hold at least one licence from an offshore regulator and have been trading for ten years or more. This page lists every one of them, ordered by overall score. A decade in business is the single thing they all share, and it is a useful screen, because most offshore outfits that take deposits and disappear never last that long. It is not proof of safety, and the figures below show why.

The record here is mixed. 319 of the 500 carry a clean regulation status on WIKILIX, while 181 carry a warning we have on record against them: 33 are flagged as suspicious clones, 24 as operating without the regulation they advertise, and 3 as outright scams. Straits Financial has traded since 2010 and scores 80.9, among the highest on the page, yet it still carries a scam warning. Age and a strong score do not cancel a red flag.

What the 500 look like

• Age. 234 have operated for 20 years or more, and 84 for 30 years or more. The oldest is Bank of Scotland, trading since 1695, which pairs a UK FCA authorisation with a Cayman Islands licence.
• Score. Ebury leads at 84.8. Only 105 of the 500 reach 50, and the median sits close to 30, so half of these long-running firms land in the bottom third of the 100-point scale.
• Leverage. 111 advertise maximum leverage of 1:1000 or more, and a few reach 1:5000 (ACY Securities). Offshore licences are where the extreme leverage lives, because the authorities issuing them rarely cap it.
• Licences. Holding an offshore licence does not make a broker offshore only. Ebury also answers to the FCA, ASIC and Hong Kong's SFC, and Interactive Brokers and Plus500 each run their offshore entities alongside several major onshore ones.

What an offshore licence actually changes

An offshore regulator such as the Seychelles FSA, Vanuatu's VFSC or the Comoros MISA usually asks for less capital and runs lighter supervision, with little or no compensation if the firm fails. That is the trade for the higher leverage and looser account rules these entities permit. When a broker holds both an onshore and an offshore licence, the entity you actually sign with decides which protections cover your money, and for clients outside Europe, the UK and Australia it is frequently the offshore one.

That decides your recourse. Under a tier-1 onshore authority you may reach a statutory ombudsman and a compensation fund. Under a Vanuatu or Comoros licence you usually have neither, so a dispute can mean pursuing a company through a court in a place you have never dealt with. Longevity helps only as evidence the firm has not collapsed yet. It says nothing about how it would treat you if it did.

Before you open an account with any firm here

• Find out which legal entity will hold your account. The group name on the marketing page is often not the entity on your contract.
• Match that entity to its licence. A British or Australian brand can still place non-European clients under its Seychelles or Vanuatu arm.
• Weigh the leverage against your own tolerance. 1:1000 magnifies a loss exactly as fast as a gain.
• Read the recorded status on each broker's page before depositing, then confirm the licence number on the regulator's own register, such as the FCA's.

What this page cannot tell you is which of these firms will take you on. That turns on where you live and each firm's own terms, not on where it holds a licence. It says nothing about spreads or withdrawal times either. Newer offshore brokers, the ones under ten years old, are not here at all; they sit on the full offshore regulated brokers list.