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Swissquote Bank (SQBLiquidity / institutional) — institutional liquidity provider

Swissquote Bank Ltd's disclosures reveal certain gaps in regulatory transparency and historical data.

Swissquote Bank Ltd · Gland, Switzerland

evidence score
79/100

Licence, read literally

RegulatorLicence numberJurisdictionTierSource
FINMAnot verifiedSwitzerlandT1open source
FCAnot verifiedUKT1open source
DFSAnot verifiedUAE (DIFC)T1open source
SFC (HK)not verifiedHong KongT1open source
MAS (Singapore)not verifiedSingaporeT1open source
CySECnot verifiedCyprusT2open 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

    Unpublished regulatory license numbers

    Swissquote Bank Ltd holds licenses from multiple regulators, but no registration numbers are published.

    Source: firm disclosures page

  2. R02

    Lack of firm founding year

    The firm's history page returned no content, leaving the founding year unrecorded.

    Source: history page

The claims ledger

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

Testable claims

  • Swissquote Bank Ltd 'holds a banking and securities trading license since 2001, is supervised by FINMA' (institutional site)
  • Swissquote Bank Ltd 'holds a banking licence issued by ... FINMA and is a member of the Swiss Bankers Association' (group structure page)
  • Swissquote Group Holding Ltd is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (symbol SQN) since May 29, 2000; headquarters in Gland (VD)
  • Institutional FX offering leverages 'state-of-the-art technologies and worldwide data centers' with SQX exchange and Swissquote Pro platform for institutional clients

Claims we cannot verify from outside

  • 'Core capital ratio 25.2%', '+1 million accounts', 'Total equity CHF 1.4 billion', 'Client assets CHF +96.3 billion' are the firm's own published figures
  • 'A vast spectrum of Forex instruments' liquidity breadth is the firm's own characterisation

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes
Leveraged FX, Deliverable FX (spot, swap, forward), Multi-asset brokerage, Structured products, Global custody
Venues
Connectivity
Clients accepted
Banks, Brokers, Funds, Asset managers, Companies, Institutional partners (white-label via partner bank services)
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.