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Barclays FX — institutional liquidity provider

This record reflects residual risks based on available disclosures and self-reported metrics.

Barclays Bank PLC · London, UK

evidence score
98/100

Licence, read literally

RegulatorLicence numberJurisdictionTierSource
FCA122702UKT1open source
SEC/FINRA (BrokerCheck, Barclays Capital Inc.)8-41342UST1open source
PRAnot verifiedUKT1open source
Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-2 means real supervision and client-money segregation, without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.

Residuals a counterparty carries

2

  1. R01

    Unverified liquidity depth claims

    Liquidity depth and fill-rate claims are self-measured and not independently verified.

    Source: selfMeasured

  2. R02

    Lack of PRA number disclosure

    Barclays Bank PLC does not publish its PRA authorisation number.

    Source: gaps

The claims ledger

Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.

Testable claims

  • BARX FX is Barclays' electronic FX trading platform, with over 25 years of electronic FX dealing (ib.barclays markets/barx/fx page)
  • Clients can trade with BARX across equities, fixed income, futures and FX (home.barclays news, Mar 2021)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

  • Liquidity depth / fill-rate claims on ib.barclays marketing pages
  • 50+ currencies / 450+ currency pairs figure appears on e-forex.net vendor profile — directory source, not verified on Barclays' own pages

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes
FX spot, FX forwards, FX swaps, NDFs, FX options
Venues
EBS, Reuters, CME FX, Bloomberg FXGO, CLS
Connectivity
FIX 4.2/4.4 API, BARX FX web platform, Barclays FX algo suite
Clients accepted
Banks, Institutional investors, Asset managers, Hedge funds, Corporates
Explicitly refused
Retail clients
A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as disclosure, not as a defect.