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FCA licence 197251

Holder
Chatham Financial
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Investment Advisory License

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RecordModified Sep 10, 2026

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Financial Conduct Authority 197251

Recorded from the firm's own disclosure. Not yet checked against the register.

Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Name on the register
Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Investment Advisory License

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What we checked

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Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 1
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Last checked
Never

Verification note

Investment adviser authorised and regulated by the FCA; hedge advisory and transaction services, not retail CFD dealing.

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The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
197251
Issued to
Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Investment Advisory License
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 describes the authority's regime, not how Chatham Financial applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

Broker
Chatham Financial Corp.
Named on the register
Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd
Based in
United States
Operating
Above 20 years
Wikilix score
88.7the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd below.

  • Chatham Financial Corp.United States · Reg. 2046472 · Aug 26, 1991
  • Chatham Hedging Advisors, LLCUnited States
  • Chatham Financial Europe, LtdMatches the registerUnited Kingdom
  • Chatham Financial Europe B.V.Netherlands
  • Chatham Financial Pte. Ltd.Singapore
  • Chatham Financial Pty LtdAustralia
Provenance

Where this record came from

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Last checked by Wikilix
Never — nobody has looked this entry up yet
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 Chatham Financial holds

4 other licences are on record for Chatham Financial.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions

They are the same business. cf.com is the group's current website, and the older chathamfinancial.com address redirects to it. Both carry the same corporate identity, legal notices and terms.

Through the enquiry form at cf.com/contact. A head office telephone number and a general enquiries email address are also published, and the head office is at 235 Whitehorse Ln, Kennett Square, PA 19348, United States. There is no live chat.

It does not hold retail client funds, so segregation and compensation schemes do not arise in the way they would at a broker. Its US broker-dealer entity, Chatham Financial Securities LLC, states membership of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, which covers securities customers of that entity rather than any retail trading balance.

Nothing found in this research supports that. The parent company is verifiable on an official government register under its own name, has existed since 1991, publishes a real head office address matching that record, and discloses its regulated subsidiaries and their licence numbers openly. The honest caution is different: it is not a broker, so anyone who was directed here expecting a trading account has been sent to the wrong kind of firm.

It depends on your region, and it matters because the regulator differs with the entity. UK clients deal with Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd under the FCA, EEA clients with Chatham Financial Europe B.V. under the Dutch AFM, Asia-Pacific clients with Chatham Financial Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, Australian and New Zealand clients with Chatham Financial Pty Ltd under ASIC, and US clients with Chatham Hedging Advisors, LLC or Chatham Financial Securities LLC.

The firm publishes no blocked-country list and no acceptance list. Its terms state the website and its content are accessible worldwide while placing the responsibility on the visitor to check local restrictions, and its content is addressed to investment professionals and professional clients. Service coverage is organised by entity: the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Asia-Pacific, and Australia and New Zealand.

It publishes no trading account tiers. Client relationships are advisory engagements with the relevant group entity for the client's region rather than standardised account types with spreads and commissions.

The question does not apply. The firm holds no retail client balances, so it publishes no deposit or withdrawal channels, no processing times and no payment fee schedule.

It offers no retail trading terminal. Its two client-facing systems are ChathamDirect, a treasury and hedge management platform for corporate clients, and ONYX, a market data service for historical rates and forward curves. MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader are not available.

None. No leveraged or margin trading product is offered, so no maximum leverage figure exists for this firm.

There is none, because the firm does not take deposits. It has no retail account funding, so no minimum deposit, account currency or funding threshold is published anywhere on its site.

Chatham Financial Corp. was incorporated on 26 August 1991, which gives the group more than three decades of continuous corporate existence. The record remains in active status.

The group's companies are owned by Chatham Financial Corp., a Pennsylvania corporation registered under number 2046472 with the Pennsylvania Department of State. The parent reports no corporate parent of its own, with ownership recorded as sitting with natural persons.

No. It is an institutional risk advisory and treasury technology firm. It advises companies on interest rate, foreign currency and commodity hedging and provides hedge accounting, valuation and debt advisory work. It does not open retail trading accounts, does not offer leverage, and does not take retail client deposits.

Its operating companies hold financial authorisations, but none of them is a retail forex licence. The firm's own Legal Notices page names a CFTC-licensed commodity trading advisor and NFA member (Chatham Hedging Advisors, LLC, NFA ID 0429008), an FCA-authorised investment adviser (Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd, reference 197251), a Dutch AFM authorisation (Chatham Financial Europe B.V., 14006371), a Japanese registration (Chatham Financial Pte. Ltd., Kanto Financial Bureau #2781), an Australian Financial Services Licence (Chatham Financial Pty Ltd, No. 450968) and an SEC-registered, FINRA-member broker-dealer (Chatham Financial Securities LLC). These are advisory and securities permissions, and they were not independently confirmed against each authority's register during this research.

Licence 197251 was issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial authority for United Kingdom.
Chatham Financial holds this FCA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
Nobody at Wikilix has looked this entry up on the FCA register yet, so treat it as claimed rather than confirmed. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
The FCA register prints it under Chatham Financial Europe, Ltd, not Chatham Financial. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates FCA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Chatham Financial has 4 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 3 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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