TPEx Regulated Brokers: Taipei Exchange Members in WIKILIX

Twenty-seven brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a registration with the Taipei Exchange (TPEx), Taiwan's over-the-counter securities and derivatives marketplace. Almost all of them are member securities dealers and futures houses rather than the international retail forex and CFD firms most people picture when they hear the word broker, and making that distinction clear is the first job of this page.

The list comes from a single filter: a recorded TPEx entry on the broker's licence record. Nothing about spreads or trading platforms fed into it, because WIKILIX holds no such data for these firms. Every name carries the regulation status label in our records apart from one, Jintai Futures, which is flagged suspiciousClone and kept in the list rather than quietly dropped so the count stays honest.

What a Taipei Exchange registration actually tells you

TPEx is classed tier-1 in the WIKILIX tier model, so all 27 firms hold at least one tier-1 entry. That standing reflects the exchange's supervision of its own members, not an authorisation to sell leveraged forex to retail clients abroad. A firm can be a fully registered Taipei Exchange dealer and run no retail CFD business at all. Three of the 27 hold more than one authority in our records: MasterLink Securities also carries SFC and FSA entries, while SinoPac pairs TPEx with the SFC and Soochow Futures pairs it with China's CFFEX. The other 24 show only the TPEx registration.

How the 27 break down

These are long-established firms. Oriental Securities Corporation opened in 1979 and is the oldest here; 18 of the 27 were operating before 2000 and 23 before 2010, leaving only four founded in the past fifteen years, the most recent being First Securities in 2016. The names divide between securities dealers such as MasterLink, President Securities, CTBC Securities and E.SUN Securities, and futures houses such as Soochow Futures, Yuanta Futures and KGI Futures.

Scores sit low and bunched. The median WIKILIX score is 22.1, and eleven firms land on that exact figure, so the sort order barely separates the middle of the table. Only four clear 30: MasterLink Securities at 54.7, SinoPac at 50.3, Soochow Futures at 35.9 and Shandong Qisheng Futures at 32.2. The floor is 4.0. A low score for this group reflects how little consumer-facing trading data WIKILIX holds on a wholesale securities firm, not a verdict that the firm is unsound.

What this list does not tell you

Two limits are worth stating plainly. Maximum leverage is recorded for only 17 of the 27, and those figures run from 1:1 up to 1:1000, too wide and too inconsistent to rank on, so there is no leverage column here. None of the 27 has a trading platform recorded, which fits firms dealing in Taiwan-listed equities and futures rather than MetaTrader-style CFDs. Most important, a TPEx registration says nothing about whether a firm will accept a client from your country. Confirm that on the firm's own terms and on the exchange's register before you act.

Before you rely on any entry here

• Check the firm against the Taipei Exchange register rather than trusting a third-party list on its own.

• Read whether the entry is a securities dealer or a futures commission house, because the products and the account you can open are different.

• Treat these as Taiwan exchange members, not international CFD accounts; most will not onboard an overseas retail forex trader.

• For the entry flagged suspiciousClone, Jintai Futures, make sure you are dealing with the genuine firm and not a copycat trading on its name.