How we verify

We read the regulatory claims a broker publishes on its own website — licence numbers, entity names, regulator names — and compare them with the official public registers of the regulators we currently cover:

• the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), United Kingdom;
• the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC);
• the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), South Africa.

Each published result links to the register entry it came from.

Checks run daily. Every page shows the timestamp of the last successful verification. If a page has not been re-verified recently, the timestamp will say so — we do not hide staleness.

Five labels carry the whole product, so each one has a precise meaning. These are the same definitions used by the status chips everywhere else on the site:

What the labels alone do not say

• A status describes the position at the time we last checked, not a permanent state.
• A mismatch can arise in more than one way — for example the number does not exist on the register, or the register entry belongs to a different firm name.
• Revoked or lapsed covers a licence the register shows as cancelled, withdrawn, suspended or otherwise no longer in force.
• Unverifiedis a statement about our check, not about the broker: the register may have been unreachable, the broker’s site may not have been readable, or the data may have been too ambiguous to match confidently.
• No claim found means exactly that — we found no claim. It does not mean the broker is unregulated; it may hold licences it does not advertise, or advertise them somewhere we did not read.

Pages are generated automatically from the verification data, with model assistance for the prose. Every page carries the timestamp of its data and links to the register entries its facts come from. A page is only published after it passes automated validation checks.