Amazing Reviews Ltd is a UK-registered publisher covering the FCA-regulated retail brokerage industry. We open real accounts, test them with real capital, and publish what we find, with no offshore listings and no paid rankings.
Amazing Reviews Ltd is a UK-registered publisher headquartered on the 37th floor of 1 Canada Square in Canary Wharf. The company was formed to give UK retail traders a single, editorially independent source of intelligence on FCA-authorised forex, spread-betting and CFD brokers. Every broker profile on this site is written by a named analyst, checked against the FCA Register at time of publication, and refreshed after a rolling 60-day live-capital evaluation window.
Our coverage is deliberately narrow. We do not review offshore brokers, we do not review firms that cannot hold UK client money, and we do not publish rankings that were bought. If a broker cannot be verified on the FCA Register, it does not appear on Amazing Reviews regardless of commission on offer. That is the single most important thing to know about the editorial promise on this site.
The desk publishes broker reviews, comparison tools, plain-English guides, and a daily news briefing covering FCA action, monetary policy and platform launches from the UK-authorised broker universe. Every page is written for a UK reader thinking about opening or moving a live trading account, and every page ends by pointing you to the specific next decision, whether that is opening the comparison tool, reading the methodology, or contacting the desk directly with a follow-up question.
Rankings on Amazing Reviews are decided by the editorial desk before commercial terms are ever agreed with a broker. Some links pay us a commission at no cost to you, but commercial arrangements never influence which broker sits at #1.
We publish critical verdicts on brokers we hold commercial arrangements with, and we rank brokers we have no commercial relationship with wherever their live-tested performance places them. That is what editorial independence actually looks like when the invoice is being paid.
Every broker review, guide and news briefing on Amazing Reviews is written by one of the six named analysts below. Each carries a UK-based professional background, a specific beat on the site, and a public byline on every page they produce. No content is published without a human name attached.
Rhodri leads the Amazing Reviews editorial desk from Canary Wharf and signs off every broker ranking before publication. Before joining the desk he ran a £420m G10 currency book at Record Currency Management and spent four years on the macro team at Aviva Investors covering GBP crosses and Bank of England policy. He has authored more than 60 long-form broker reviews on Amazing Reviews, personally led the 2025 and 2026 UK Best Broker Awards methodology overhaul, and writes the weekly Editor's Briefing that leads the homepage. Rhodri is the named final reviewer on every FCA regulatory update we publish.
Ines runs the live-capital broker testing programme at Amazing Reviews. She opens, funds and stress-tests every FCA-authorised broker we cover, records the platform walk-throughs used in our video library, and builds the internal spread-capture tooling that feeds the Live Spread charts on each review page. Before joining the desk Ines spent six years as a quantitative developer at IG Group building execution-quality dashboards, and two years contracting for CMC Markets on their Next Generation platform. She has personally written the platform sections of 38 broker reviews on this site and co-authors the MT4, MT5 and cTrader deep-dive guides.
Tomasz is the desk's regulatory analyst and legally reviews every broker profile, ranking table and news briefing before it is published. He spent seven years inside the FCA's Wholesale Conduct division working on CFD provider supervision and Product Intervention Measures, and joined Amazing Reviews to make sure UK retail readers get an accurate, non-marketing view of what FCA authorisation actually does and does not protect. Tomasz owns the Regulatory Alerts news vertical, writes the FSCS explainer library, and is the named author on every leverage-cap, ESMA and PS20/12 explainer on the site.
Anouk runs the Amazing Reviews learning library and is the lead writer on the Trading Academy, the Guides section and the VPS, algo-trading and risk-management deep dives. She previously wrote the daily FX briefing for a City-based prop desk and spent three years on the Financial Times Weekend markets desk, so every guide is edited to a working newsroom standard. Anouk is the named writer on more than 40 long-form guides on this site, ghost-authors the platform tutorials in the Trading Academy, and hosts the fortnightly beginner webinars that run out of the Canary Wharf office.
Kwame writes the bulk of the long-form broker reviews on Amazing Reviews and owns the comparison-page network that links every broker head-to-head. He spent five years on the FX sales desk at Citi in London before moving to editorial, and brings a practitioner's view to pricing, execution and RFQ mechanics. Kwame has authored the IG, Saxo, Pepperstone, IC Markets and Interactive Brokers reviews on this site, maintains the pricing-and-commissions tables refreshed each quarter, and writes the weekend deep-dive on cost-of-trade that appears in our newsletter.
Saoirse runs the daily market analysis desk, writes the FCA regulation updates and produces the London-session commentary that anchors the news vertical. Before joining Amazing Reviews she spent four years on the Reuters FX desk covering EUR/GBP and Bank of England policy, and two years at a London-based macro research house writing daily notes for institutional clients. She is the named author on every TradingView-embedded market analysis piece on the site, hosts the weekly product-launch round-up and is the primary reviewer on new broker platform releases.
The desk is deliberately kept small. Every broker review is drafted by one of the writers above, cross-checked by the editor-in-chief, and legally reviewed by our regulatory analyst before publication. Rankings are agreed in a weekly Monday editorial meeting held in person at the Canary Wharf office, with the methodology score sheet on the table and the commercial team out of the room.
Every review, ranking and news briefing on Amazing Reviews is produced under a written editorial policy that governs sourcing, disclosure of commercial arrangements, right of reply for brokers we cover, corrections handling and separation of commercial and editorial teams. The policy is enforced by the editor-in-chief and is reviewed annually by an external compliance consultant with prior FCA experience.
Sourcing is anchored to primary evidence. Every broker fact on this site is verified against the FCA Register, the broker's own Key Information Document and account-opening paperwork, and our own live-capital testing. Where a claim is drawn from a broker's marketing material we mark it as such and check it against a second, independent source before publishing. Any figure that we cannot independently reproduce is removed from the page rather than left to sit as a marketing quote.
Commercial disclosure is at the foot of every review and, where relevant, at the head of any ranking table. Amazing Reviews may earn a commission when a reader opens an account with a broker via one of our links; the commission is negotiated by a separate commercial team, is never seen by the analyst writing the review, and is never a factor in ranking order. If a broker declines to pay a commission we still cover it, and if a broker offers a higher commission on the condition of a favourable ranking we decline the arrangement and note the approach in the ranking-table footer.
Every broker profiled on this site is given a right of reply before publication. We send the broker's UK press office a draft of any critical section 72 hours before it goes live, with highlighted factual claims and a request for corrections. Any factual amendment supported by evidence is accepted. Any editorial disagreement, on ranking, tone or verdict, is not, and is noted at the foot of the review as "Broker response on file."
Corrections are welcomed and are acted on quickly. If a fact on any Amazing Reviews page is inaccurate, email the desk at info@amazingreviews.co.uk with the URL, the paragraph in question and any supporting source. Verified corrections are made within one UK working day and marked at the foot of the article with a dated correction note describing what changed and why.
Complaints about editorial conduct, commercial disclosures or the way a broker relationship has been handled should be addressed to the editor-in-chief at the same address. We respond in writing within five UK working days and, where the complaint concerns a named analyst, that analyst is removed from any further coverage of the broker in question while the review is under way. Where a complaint cannot be resolved internally you may escalate to IMPRESS, the UK press regulator, whose contact details we will share on request. Amazing Reviews is not a regulated financial adviser and nothing on this site is personal financial advice; readers should consider FCA-authorised advice before acting on any content published here.
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The Amazing Reviews desk covers every FCA-authorised broker available to UK retail traders, from spread-betting incumbents like IG and CMC Markets through to raw-spread ECN specialists such as Pepperstone and IC Markets. Every firm we list holds current FCA authorisation, offers FSCS protection up to £85,000 on eligible claims, and has been tested live by our editorial desk in Canary Wharf with real capital before we publish a verdict.
the Amazing Reviews desk is one slice of that coverage. The pages below extend the analysis into related categories, side-by-side comparisons and the methodology behind our scoring. If you are opening your first live account, start with the beginner ranking; if you are moving broker to reduce costs, jump straight into the comparison tool and pull the tightest spreads by session.
None of the brokers on Amazing Reviews are offshore or unauthorised. If a firm cannot be located on the FCA Register we do not cover it, regardless of commercial incentive. Every ranking is decided before any commercial conversation opens, and we routinely publish critical verdicts on brokers we hold commercial arrangements with.
The directory itself is refreshed after every 60-day evaluation cycle. That cadence matters, spreads move, platforms change, and FCA permissions get amended. When a broker on our list changes materially between cycles, we publish an interim update rather than wait for the next full pass. That is the same standard we apply whether the firm has a commercial relationship with Amazing Reviews or not.
Saxo offers 71,000+ markets on SaxoTraderGO and SaxoTraderPRO with FSCS protection up to £85,000. Best for: Wealth-focused traders and multi-asset portfolios.
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 65% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.
Forex.com offers 5,500+ markets on Web Trader and MT4 with FSCS protection up to £85,000. Best for: Fundamentally-driven macro traders.
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 76% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.
XTB offers 6,000+ markets on xStation 5 and xStation Mobile with FSCS protection up to £85,000. Best for: Traders wanting a single, polished proprietary platform.
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 76% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.
These are the rankings we re-test and re-score first each cycle, the pages most UK traders land on when they are choosing where to open a live account.