Open research & data
Register-checked findings, recomputed as records are re-verified. Current snapshot: September 2026 — 100 licence records, including research-only brands, and 20 brokers in the published directory.
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.