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USGFX FCA licence 798776

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Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Financial Service
Last checked
Nov 6, 2026

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Financial Conduct Authority 798776

Wikilix read the FCA register on Nov 6, 2026. This is what it said.

Holder
UNION STANDARD INTERNATIONAL GROUP PTY LTD logoUNION STANDARD INTERNATIONAL GROUP PTY LTD
Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority logoFinancial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom flagUnited Kingdom
Licence type
Financial Service
Effective
Nov 5, 2018
Expires
Dec 16, 2022
Register status
No longer authorised since 16 Dec 2022
Not found on register

Checked Nov 6, 2026

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Our check
Checked

What we checked

This licence is no longer in force, or the register did not carry it when we looked.

Wikilix check
Ended
Authority strength
Tier 1
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Last checked
Nov 6, 2026
Register says
No longer authorised since 16 Dec 2022

Finding

FCA authorisation FRN 798776, held by the UK sister company Union Standard International Group Limited (trading as USG UK, UK USG and United Strategic International), not by the Australian company. The firm has not been authorised since 16 December 2022. Client protection: None for new business. Former UK clients may still ask the Financial Ombudsman Service or the FSCS whether their case is covered. Effective: 05 Nov 2018. Expires: 16 Dec 2022.

The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Licence number
798776
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Financial Service
Register status
No longer authorised since 16 Dec 2022
Effective from
Expires
The authority

About FCA

Financial Conduct Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is United Kingdom.

Full name
Financial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Strength
Tier 1The strictest regimes: high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Established
2013
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
108 firms
Regulates
Forex, Bond, Stocks, Fund, Options, Derivatives, Commodity, Loan, Retail Investment
Licences it issues
MiFID Investment Firm – Dealing on Own Account / Matched Principal (retail & market-making CFDs)
Typical cost of a licence
£100000+ (including compliance setup)
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High
Protection

What this licence protects

FCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This licence is not in force, so these protections do not apply to it. They describe FCA's regime for the firms it currently authorises.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against USGFX. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

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Broker
UNION STANDARD INTERNATIONAL GROUP PTY LTD
Based in
Australia
Wikilix score
34.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

None of these matches the name the register printed, so we do not say which one holds this licence.

  • UNION STANDARD INTERNATIONAL GROUP PTY LTDAustralia · Reg. 117658349 · Mar 7, 2017
  • SPECTRE FINANCIAL GROUP TRADING LTDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 10702813 · Mar 31, 2017
Provenance

Where this record came from

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Official source
The issuing authority’s registerPublished by the authority, not by Wikilix.
Last checked by Wikilix
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
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Also on record

Other licences USGFX holds

One other licence is on record for USGFX.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions
Licence 798776 was issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial authority for United Kingdom.
USGFX holds this FCA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
No. This licence is no longer in force, or the FCA register did not carry it when we looked. It is kept on record because a closed registration is part of a firm’s history.
Wikilix rates FCA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
This page links straight to the FCA register. Search it for 798776, and for the name USGFX rather than the trading brand.
USGFX has one other licence on record with Wikilix, across one jurisdiction. They are listed further down this page.
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