Guide
Every fact this site computes starts in one place beginners never scroll to: the small print at the bottom of the broker's own pages. Sixty seconds there outweighs sixty reviews.
Facts checked on October 22, 2026
Homepages are written by marketing. Legal footers are written by lawyers who know the documents will be read in disputes. The footer names the operating companies, their regulators, and usually the sentence that decides your verdict: which entity serves which countries.
Scroll to the bottom. Find the paragraph beginning 'X is a registered trademark' or listing group companies. Note every company name and its regulator. Find the sentence pattern '…provides services to residents of…' or the restricted-countries list. The entity whose territory includes your country is your counterparty. Then find your client agreement's first page and confirm the same name is on it.
'…does not provide services to residents of the United States…' settles acceptance. 'Your agreement is with [offshore entity] unless you are a resident of…' settles the entity. '…is registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines…' settles the regulator question — SVG does not supervise forex brokers. When the footer and the homepage disagree, the footer is telling the truth and the homepage is telling a story.
One brand's footer lists a CySEC company for Europe and a Belize company 'for the rest of the world' — two sentences that contain this entire website. Another's lists a single offshore registration and five partner logos. Both footers were honest. Only one of them was read by the people depositing.
Screenshots of licences in a sales deck are not the footer. If a promoter cannot show you the entity paragraph on the broker's own live website, the call is over.
The free check gives you the verdict for one country and one broker. The Deposit Safety Kit gives you the complete walkthroughs: how to verify the entity in the broker's own legal footer, where on your regulator's site the register and the warning lists live, how to read a compensation scheme, and the first-withdrawal test protocol — deposit small, withdraw first, then decide.
Included in the $39 Deposit Safety Kit
Sources: the brokers' own legal and entity pages as published on the check date; the Reserve Bank of India Alert List; the UK Financial Conduct Authority Register and Warning List; the Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers; Bappebti (Indonesia) licensed and blocked lists; CVM (Brazil) declaratory acts; the FSCA (South Africa) FSP register; the Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) licensee list; the Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) advisory list; SECP/PMEX (Pakistan) membership; SEC Nigeria and Central Bank of Nigeria publications. Affiliate bounty figures from the programs' own published terms (Exness, XM, Plus500, eToro affiliate pages). If a fact has moved since our check date, the regulator's or broker's own publication wins — and write to help@doogex.com so we can correct ours.