Open research & data
Register-checked findings, recomputed as records are re-verified. Current snapshot: October 2026 — 97 licence records, including research-only brands, and 24 brokers in the published directory.
Withdrawal times: processing vs arrival
Dated policy examples from XM, IC Markets Australia and Tickmill UK: separate payment stages, local cut-offs and unresolved wording.
Monthly briefs: charts you can reuse
October: who is behind a broker name? Download the entity and evidence charts, with their frozen dataset and citation notes.
Account terms: exact scope and open questions
Read entity-specific commissions, funding and withdrawal conditions for the pilot accounts, with dated sources and unresolved details.
Australia: raw-account commissions
Compare IC Markets Raw Spread and Vantage RAW Classic by account currency. Includes an embeddable sourced card.
September 2026: a fixed licence-record snapshot
100 records, 17 historical corrections, and the difference between correcting a value and re-verifying it. Includes a dated downloadable dataset and citation notes.
The broker entity study
How many legal entities sit behind each broker brand, which regulators actually oversee them, and how often published licence claims survive a register check.
Licence confusions
The error patterns in circulating broker licence data — cross-broker mix-ups, near-miss digits and stale statuses — with every case linked to the regulator's register entry.
CFD loss rates by broker
The share of retail accounts that lost money, as each broker publishes it, read on the brokers' own sites entity by entity and compared UK against EU. Refreshed every quarter.
Broker account security
What stops someone with your password taking your money out: which brokers require a second factor on the withdrawal itself, which protect only the login, and which document nothing. Read on the brokers' own sites.
FCA warnings, week by week
Every FCA clone-firm and unauthorised-firm warning, refreshed weekly from the regulator's own pages and cross-checked against the brokers in this database.
MiCA-licensed exchanges
ESMA's register of crypto-asset service providers, re-read weekly and matched to the exchange brands people search for: on the register, or not.
Is your broker regulated?
One computed page per broker: every licence with its register-check status, the entity that would onboard you, and what the licences protect.
Machine-readable: the full licence-evidence log is public at /evidence.json — statuses, register links, check dates and method definitions. Free to cite with attribution; corrections are logged openly in our editorial policy.