Onshore Regulated Brokers, All 1,127 Ranked by Score

WIKILIX has 1,127 brokers on record that hold at least one licence from an onshore regulator, and this page lists every one of them in score order. At the top is Marex at 91.3, a London firm authorised by the FCA, Hong Kong's SFC and the US NFA. Onshore means the licence was issued by a regulator in the country where the firm does business, the kind that runs a public register and a formal complaints process, and in several markets stands behind a compensation scheme.

What counts as onshore, and what does not

An onshore licence is one granted by a domestic authority that supervises firms operating on its own soil. The FCA in Britain, ASIC in Australia and the SFC in Hong Kong are the obvious ones, but the label reaches wider than the top tier. Cyprus's CySEC, Malta's MFSA and Malaysia's Labuan authority all count as onshore here, and they sit at tier two and tier three rather than tier one. That is the line between this page and the tier-1 regulated brokers list, which narrows to 602 firms holding a licence from the most demanding authorities. Onshore is about where the licence lives, not how strict the regulator is.

A firm earns a place here if any single licence it holds is onshore, even when it also holds offshore ones. Interactive Brokers carries eleven authorities on its record, from the FCA and ASIC down to Comoros and Vanuatu registrations, so it sits on this list and the offshore one at once. Read the licence, not just the name.

The register at a glance

Of the 1,127 firms, 764 carry our clean regulation label and 363 carry a warning of some kind. Age runs deep here: 529 have traded for sixteen years or more, and the oldest, Bank of Scotland, dates to 1695. Geneva's Pictet has operated since 1805. The highest scores cluster among the long-established names.

An onshore licence is not a clean bill of health

Sitting on a domestic register tells you a firm was authorised at some point. It does not promise the firm is safe today, and 363 names here prove the point. 183 carry a clone warning, where a website borrows a licensed firm's name and registration number to look legitimate. The entry recorded as Blackrock is one of them, showing four real regulator names while flagged as a suspicious clone. Seven firms carry our most serious label, among them Straits Financial, which lists SFC, MAS and NFA authorisations yet is recorded as a scam. A few household names, Santander UK included, are flagged for operating beyond the scope their licence allows. Treat the register as the start of a check, not the end of one.

Who is not here

Brokers whose only licences are offshore, from the Seychelles FSA, Vanuatu's VFSC or the Comoros authority, do not appear on this page. There are 953 of those on our offshore regulated brokers list. If a well-known broker you expected is missing, it usually means the entity you were about to open an account with is registered offshore, even when a sister company in the same group holds an onshore licence.

Before you rely on an onshore licence

• Find the exact legal entity named on the sign-up page. Groups run several companies, and the onshore one may not be the entity taking your deposit.
• Match the licence number to the regulator's own public register, not a logo on the broker's website.
• Check whether a compensation scheme applies to your account. FCA authorisation can bring FSCS cover, but only for the entity and the activity it names.
• Confirm the onshore licence covers the product you want to trade. A payments or securities permission is not the same as a derivatives one.