Industry data, regulation and the mechanics of how trading actually works.
A February 2026 statement tells firms that the commercial name of a leveraged derivative is irrelevant. What matters is whether it meets the definition of a CFD, and most perpetuals likely do.
A licence number on a website proves nothing on its own. Six checks, all on regulators' own registers, separate a regulated firm from a clone of one.
The UK's FSCS and Cyprus's ICF protect clients when a firm fails. Neither covers trading losses, and the limits differ by a factor of four.
The grandfathering window for crypto-asset service providers has closed across the EU. Unauthorised firms must wind down, and the protections clients get now depend on exactly which legal entity they deal with.
