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Some of the top regulatory agencies in the world include:

  • The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in the United Kingdom
  • The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA) in the United States
  • The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) in Switzerland
  • The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in Australia
  • The Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) in Japan
  • The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) in Cyprus

If the broker you use is regulated by one of the regulatory agencies above, you can be confident that it is safe. The reason is that these regulatory agencies have strict requirements that brokers must meet to be licensed.

Only the most reputable and trustworthy brokers can obtain a license.

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The first official effort to regulate the industry began in 2004 through the establishment of Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS/FSFR). After the agency's disbandment in 2013, the Central Bank of Russia took over supervising Russian forex brokers.

In 2015, the Central Bank of Russia launched far stricter law enforcement. Forex brokers were given a January 2016 deadline to obtain licenses from CBR, or abstain from carrying out their services in the region. Since then, CBR only granted licenses to a handful of brokers.

Continue Reading at Best Forex Brokers in Russia

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is the regulatory authority overseeing forex trading in Singapore. Singapore's regulatory framework allows leverage up to 1:500 and covers a wide range of forex pairs and cryptocurrencies.

Continue Reading at Forex Trading in Singapore: 5 Facts You Need to Know

Some brokers might claim that they are in the process of applying for a license or a license extension. But in reality, not all brokers are true to their words. Some of them don't actually apply for any license and only use those words to steal the clients' funds. Even if the license is indeed "in the process", the broker's still unregulated during that time.

Continue Reading at Forex Regulation Insights: Defining Your Broker's Status