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COUNTERPARTY FILE · last re-checked 2026-09

IMC Trading — institutional liquidity provider

Market-maker record stands on its published licences; unpublished firm details stay null rather than filled from directories.

IMC Financial Markets (group; US entity IMC FINANCIAL MARKETS per BrokerCheck, CRD 104143; UK entity IMC London Limited) · Amsterdam, Netherlands

evidence score
89/100

Licence, read literally

RegulatorLicence numberJurisdictionTierSource
SEC/FINRA (BrokerCheck, IMC Financial Markets)8-52600UST1open source
FCA (IMC London Limited)1007808UKT1open 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

    Founding year and HQ not on own pages

    IMC's own site does not publish a founding year for the trading firm or an HQ line in the reviewed pages; both fields are null in the register.

    Source: firm pages reviewed 2026-09

  2. R02

    Volume and performance figures are self-measured

    Any volume, fill-rate or performance figures the firm publishes are its own measurement; the register records them under self-measured claims. Licences recorded: SEC/FINRA (BrokerCheck, IMC Financial Markets) 8-52600; FCA (IMC London Limited) 1007808.

    Source: firm pages

The claims ledger

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

Testable claims

  • Own homepage states 'A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, IMC provides liquidity wherever markets trade', 'Providing liquidity since 1989 — AEX | 1989 - 2025', and 'We develop innovative technologies and algorithms to trade in all major asset classes on more than 120 venues globally', with metrics '+120 Trading venues', '10 Offices', '+2070 Employees', '9000+ servers across 9 countries', '36 Years of trading' (imc.com, checked 10 Sept 2026)
  • FINRA BrokerCheck search API returns IMC FINANCIAL MARKETS (CRD 104143), SEC number 8-52600, firm_scope ACTIVE (brokercheck.finra.org/firm/104143)
  • FCA register bulk-extract lists IMC London Limited, FRN 1007808, Authorised (authorised 2024-08-09)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

  • 'Our ambition is to be the world's leading trading firm' — own marketing
  • Employee/venue/server counts are self-published homepage metrics

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes
Equities, ETFs, Options, Futures, Fixed income, Commodities, Digital assets
Venues
More than 120 trading venues globally (own figure)
Connectivity
Proprietary algorithms/electronic trading, Exchange memberships
Clients accepted
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.