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FXCM Pro (Stratos Group) — institutional liquidity provider

This record highlights potential transparency concerns regarding self-measured claims and unpublished venues.

Stratos Markets Limited · 110 Bishopsgate, 17th Floor, London EC2N 4AY, UK (Stratos Group headquarters)

evidence score
78/100

Licence, read literally

RegulatorLicence numberJurisdictionTierSource
FCA217689UKT1open source
ASIC309763AustraliaT1open 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

    Self-measured claims

    The claim of a new FIX session in less than 20 seconds is self-measured and not independently verified.

    Source: own PR figure

  2. R02

    Unpublished venues

    No venues or data centers are published, which may affect transparency.

    Source: record current Stratos entity names

The claims ledger

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

Testable claims

  • Stratos Markets Limited is authorised and regulated in the UK by the FCA, registration number 217689 — own site footer text on fxcm.com pages
  • Stratos Trading Pty. Limited (trading as FXCM, AFSL 309763, ABN 31 121 934 432) is regulated by ASIC — own page fxcm.com/au/about-fxcm/global-broker
  • FXCM Pro partnered with Your Bourse (2023) for ultra-low-latency execution including FIX provisioning — own press release

Claims we cannot verify from outside

  • "new FIX session in less than 20 seconds" via Your Bourse partnership — own PR figure, not an independently measured SLA

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes
FX spot, Metals, CFDs
Venues
Connectivity
FIX API, REST API
Clients accepted
Institutional clients, Brokers, Hedge funds
Explicitly refused
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.