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FCA licence recorded for Uphold

Holder
Uphold
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Financial Service

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RecordModified Aug 19, 2026

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

Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Holder
Uphold Worldwide Ltd
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Financial Service

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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

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 type (Wikilix classification)
Financial Service
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 Uphold applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against Uphold. Wikilix holds no separate company records for this holder, so we cannot say which legal company the register issued it to.

Broker
Uphold Worldwide Ltd
Based in
Bahamas
Wikilix score
50.3the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence
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 Uphold holds

2 other licences are on record for Uphold.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions
Proprietary multi-asset trading platform accessible via web browser and mobile apps (iOS & Android). Users can buy, sell, and swap cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, and precious metals directly on the platform with an intuitive “anything-to-anything” interface.
Uphold offers trading in forex, bonds, stocks, funds, options, derivatives, commodities, loans, and retail investments. The availability of instruments may vary depending on the regulatory jurisdiction.
Uphold supports various funding methods including debit and credit cards, ACH transfers, wire transfers, SEPA, FPS, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Interac (Canada), and crypto networks.
Uphold Worldwide Ltd is regulated by multiple authorities including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the US, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, and FINTRAC in Canada.
Uphold 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.
Uphold has 2 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 2 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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