Markets

Brokers by country

Eleven markets, each with its regulator and its investor-protection scheme read from a primary source. The answers are genuinely different: the United States caps SIPC at $500,000 per customer, Canada gives you a separate CAD 1,000,000 limit for each of three account categories, the UK will compensate for bad advice as well as missing assets — and Australia, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, the UAE and South Africa have no compensation scheme at all.

With a published broker ranking

United States
SEC, with FINRA as the self-regulatory organization · SIPC
The United States is our launch market and the only one where we publish a broker ranking. Every broker in our database is an active SEC-registered broker-dealer, a FINRA member and a SIPC member, and we publish each firm's CRD and SEC file number so you can check its status yourself.

Regulator and protection researched, ranking still to come

Each of these names the regulator that licenses brokers there and states what protects your assets if one fails — read from primary sources. What none of them carries is a broker ranking, because we have not yet confirmed which legal entity would hold a resident’s account.