Money you send Raze Markets becomes the firm's own property under clause 25.1, and you keep no ownership claim over it. If the firm fails, clause 25.1.4 puts you in the queue as a general creditor.
Why this matters
You are lending Raze Markets your deposit, not placing it somewhere safe. If the firm goes under, your balance is not ring fenced and you recover only what is left after secured creditors are paid.
Exhibit 1Every flagged clause gets its own number so you can point at this one. The number does not change, so a link to it keeps working.CriticalHow much this clause can cost you, in our reading. Critical can take your money or your profit. Warning can delay or limit it. Notice is simply worth knowing before you sign.Rarely seenHow ordinary this wording looks next to the contracts we read. This is our reading of the clause, not a count of other brokers.
any money you transfer to us is a transfer of full ownership of the money to us for the purpose of securing or covering your present, future, actual, contingent or prospective obligations to us.
Firms licensed by the FCA and CySEC must hold retail client money in segregated accounts, and taking full ownership of a retail client's cash this way is not open to them. This contract states that title to your money passes to the company.
Raze Markets is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.
Our readingOur own comment on the clause, not the broker's words. Anything we quote is marked as a quotation.This is a title transfer arrangement, a device borrowed from institutional collateral deals. Pointed at a retail balance it turns your cash into a debt the firm owes you, and two other Raze Markets documents say the opposite about insolvency.
- Worse together with Exhibit 9Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.One clause says your deposit is no longer yours, the other makes you pay a negative balance, so money moves in one direction only.