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FCA licence 174863

Holder
Market Securities
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Institution Forex License

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RecordModified Sep 10, 2026

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Financial Conduct Authority 174863

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

Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Institution Forex License

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Our check

What we checked

Nobody has adjudicated this licence yet. It is recorded here as claimed, not as confirmed.

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

Verification note

Held by Kyte Broking Limited, the group's UK principal firm, which the operator's own legal disclaimer describes as authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and which holds FCA permission to operate an Organised Trading Facility. Institutional scope; the operator publishes no per-entity register link, so the permission was not confirmed against the authority's own record in this run.

Nobody at Wikilix has looked this licence up on the official register yet. Everything above comes from the record as supplied; treat it as a claim until you have checked it yourself.

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The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
174863
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Institution Forex 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 Market Securities applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

Broker
Market Securities
Based in
United Kingdom
Operating
15-20 years
Wikilix score
89.7the 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.

  • Market Securities LLPUnited Kingdom · Limited liability partnership · Reg. OC325844 · Feb 10, 2007
  • Kyte Broking LimitedUnited Kingdom · Private limited company · Reg. 02781314 · Jan 20, 1993
  • Market Securities Group LimitedHong Kong · Reg. 69549388 · Jun 25, 2018
  • Market Securities (Dubai) LimitedUnited Arab Emirates · Reg. 1474 · Oct 22, 2013
  • Market Securities France SAFrance · Reg. 844845750 · Dec 24, 2018
  • Market Securities, LLCUnited States · Reg. 5983390 · Mar 8, 2016
  • Market Securities (Hong Kong) LimitedHong Kong · Reg. 71082396 · Aug 19, 2019
  • Market Securities (Monaco) S.A.M.Monaco · Reg. 23S09586 · Sep 15, 2023
  • Market Securities SarlSwitzerland
Provenance

Where this record came from

Every date below has already happened. We do not publish a promised next-update date, because we do not schedule per-licence re-checks.

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 Market Securities holds

5 other licences are on record for Market Securities.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions

Only its US arm makes a protection claim: Market Securities, LLC states that it is a member of SIPC. The firm publishes no client money or segregation statement for its UK, French or Dubai entities, and we did not confirm any protection arrangement against an official record. Since no retail accounts are offered, no retail client money is held in the first place.

It means the company operating the website is not authorised by the FCA in its own right. An appointed representative may carry on regulated business only under the responsibility of an authorised principal firm, which here is Kyte Broking Limited. The consequence worth understanding is that the principal, not the appointed representative, answers to the regulator for business conducted under that arrangement.

Its headquarters is at 55 Baker Street, London W1U 8EW, which is also the registered office recorded at Companies House for both Market Securities LLP and Kyte Broking Limited. It publishes further offices in New York, Paris, Geneva, Dubai, Hong Kong, Monaco and Madrid, each with a street address, and the group's registered companies in those jurisdictions are all active on official registers.

The firm dates its founding to 2008, when the partnership adopted the Market Securities name. UK Companies House shows the same partnership incorporated on 10 February 2007 under its earlier name, Kyte Equity Derivatives LLP, and renamed on 23 March 2009. Its principal firm, Kyte Broking Limited, has been registered since 20 January 1993. The claimed age is therefore supported rather than inflated.

Through the business enquiry form and address on its contact page, or by telephoning an office directly: +44 (0)203 925 8300 in London, +1 917 924 9811 in New York, +33 1 70 99 52 00 in Paris, +971 4 374 1300 in Dubai and +41 21 787 2924 in Geneva. The general enquiry address is Business_development@market-securities.com. There is no live chat and no published support hours.

The firm names no accepted or restricted countries anywhere on its site. Its disclaimer says only that the website is not intended for use by anyone in a jurisdiction where that would be contrary to local law or regulatory requirements, which names no country. Because there is no onboarding form, there is also no country selector to indicate which jurisdictions it will take on.

The question does not arise in the retail sense, because the firm publishes no deposit or withdrawal channel and holds no retail client accounts. In the United States, group company Market Securities, LLC states that client accounts are carried by its clearing firm, RBC Clearing and Custody, on a fully disclosed basis rather than by Market Securities itself.

The firm publishes no leverage figure, and no retail leverage applies because it offers no retail accounts. Its disclaimer does warn generally that investments in securities and financial instruments, including futures, options and contracts for difference, can lose value and may create additional liabilities.

Its published capabilities span equities, including cash equities, derivatives, convertibles and risk arbitrage; rates, with futures and options focused on short term rates, interest rate swaps and repo; credit, covering distressed and investment grade with emerging market and corporate bond repo; foreign exchange from vanilla to exotics; commodities across exchange traded and OTC oil, softs, metals and minerals, plus digital asset derivatives; and structured products. These are institutional execution services, not a retail instrument list.

None is published. The site names no MetaTrader, cTrader or proprietary platform, and offers no download or web terminal. Execution is described as a service delivered by trading teams to institutional counterparties rather than through a self-service platform.

The firm publishes none, because it does not take retail deposits. There is no client account, no funding page and no deposit channel of any kind on the site. Any figure quoted elsewhere as a Market Securities minimum deposit does not come from the firm.

No. There is no account opening flow anywhere on the site and no retail product is offered. Market Securities describes itself as serving banks, hedge funds, institutional investors and proprietary trading firms, and its Dubai regulatory disclosure states expressly that its services are for Professional Clients and Market Counterparties only and must not be relied upon by Retail Clients.

The website is operated by Market Securities LLP, a UK limited liability partnership registered under number OC325844 at 55 Baker Street, London W1U 8EW. The Global LEI record places it and the group's UK principal firm, Kyte Broking Limited, under a common parent, Market Securities Group Limited, a Hong Kong company formed in 2018.

Nothing we found points that way. Every legal entity the firm names exists, is currently active on an official register, and sits at the address the firm publishes: the operating partnership Market Securities LLP has been on the UK register since February 2007, and its principal firm Kyte Broking Limited since January 1993. The honest caveat is that its regulatory permissions were not confirmed against the authorities that granted them, so the position is well evidenced on the corporate side and unconfirmed on the regulatory side.

It operates under named regulatory permissions, but the company behind the website does not hold one in its own right. Its own disclaimer states that Market Securities LLP, FCA register number 519097, is an appointed representative of Kyte Broking Limited, FCA register number 174863, which it describes as authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Group companies in Dubai, France and the United States are described as authorised by the DFSA, the ACPR and FINRA respectively. None of these permissions was confirmed against the issuing authority's own record in our research, so they are claimed rather than confirmed.

Licence 174863 was issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial authority for United Kingdom.
Market Securities 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.
Wikilix rates FCA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Market Securities has 5 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 4 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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