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Swissquote

Swissquote

Warning United Kingdom Founded 1996

XRAY Review

Neutral

Official records support the named entities, but account terms and protection scope remain unclear

Swissquote is presented as a financial-services brand with a UK broker record and six separately named entities in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland and Malta. Their recorded activities span investment dealing, order execution, custody, leveraged foreign exchange and banking, but these permissions belong to individual entities rather than automatically to the brand. The disclosed account families are Premium, Prime and Elite. No corresponding product offerings, pricing, minimum funding requirements or eligibility conditions are supplied, so meaningful differences between these accounts cannot be established from this evidence.

The disclosed software comprises MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and TradingView, without an allocation to particular legal entities. Terminal records also describe MT4 and MT5 infrastructure, but do not establish customer execution quality. Our site's approved checks against official regulatory registers support all six named entities within the permissions observed. These include FCA authorisation for Swissquote Ltd, SFC leveraged-foreign-exchange permission for Swissquote Asia Limited, and DFSA investment and custody activities for Swissquote MEA Ltd. Name-based checks also identify SWISSQUOTE PTE. LTD. for capital-markets dealing and custody, Swissquote Bank SA as a bank, and the Malta entity for investment, foreign-exchange and custody-related services. The UK record includes a financial-promotion requirement. The Singapore, Swiss and Malta checks did not capture licence numbers; their disclosure status is unknown, which does not invalidate the approved name-based matches.

The main unresolved question is which entity would contract with a particular customer and which account, products and platforms it would provide. Protection indicators attached to regulator records are not sufficient to establish that customer's contractual entitlements, compensation eligibility or client-money treatment. The content and practical applicability of the UK financial-promotion requirement also need clarification. Account costs and withdrawal conditions are not supplied, while the terminal latency figures lack measurement context and cannot reliably establish execution performance. Overall, the official-registration evidence provides a substantive institutional basis, but does not settle service terms or customer-specific safeguards. It neither guarantees withdrawals or returns nor measures market risk or establishes suitability.

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  • Official-register checks cover six named entities

    Our site's approved official-source checks match entities under the FCA, DFSA, SFC, MAS, FINMA and MFSA, within the permissions observed.

  • Account and software names are disclosed

    Company-supplied information names Premium, Prime and Elite accounts, plus MT4, MT5 and TradingView. This identifies offerings, not their quality or entity-level availability.

  • Contracting entity and protection applicability are unresolved

    Accounts and platforms are not mapped to entities. Regulator-level protection indicators do not establish customer-specific compensation, negative-balance or client-money entitlements.

  • Account economics and withdrawal terms are missing

    No account-level pricing, funding requirements, eligibility rules or withdrawal conditions are supplied, preventing a meaningful comparison of Premium, Prime and Elite.

  • Restriction details and performance context are incomplete

    The UK record lists a financial-promotion requirement without its text. Terminal latency figures lack measurement context and cannot establish customer execution quality.

  1. Check the account agreement for the exact contracting entity and match it to the corresponding official register entry.
  2. Request entity-specific client-money, negative-balance and compensation documents, including eligibility conditions.
  3. Obtain the Premium, Prime and Elite fee schedules, funding requirements and withdrawal rules from the contracting entity.
  4. Read the FCA financial-promotion requirement attached to Swissquote Ltd and confirm whether it affects the proposed service.
  5. Confirm platform availability with the contracting entity and request the methodology behind the reported terminal latency figures.

This AI review summarizes the structured public evidence currently available. It may omit recent changes and is not investment, trading, or account-opening advice. Always verify the contracting entity, licence, and customer agreement independently.

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Related entities 6

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Full company name
Swissquote Asia Limited
Country / region
Hong Kong SAR China
Founded
2013-02-25
LEI
Not disclosed
Registered address
香港中環花園道3號工商銀行大廈32樓3202-04室
Status
Active
Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong
Securities and Futures Commission of Hong KongSFC
Licence status: Active
Licence number
AZV127
Verification status
Verified
Licence type
SFC licensed corporation
Effective date
2013-02-25
Last checked
2026-09-27

Business permissions 1

  • Leveraged foreign exchange trading

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Company and services

Swissquote provides online financial services and trading access to foreign exchange and contracts for difference through its digital platforms.

Full company name
Swissquote Ltd
Founded
1996-01-01
Registered address
Boston House, 63-64 New Broad Street, London, EC2M 1JJ.
Supported languages
Chinese (Simplified) · Chinese (Traditional) · English · French · German · Italian

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