At Fjord Markets, client protection is the first line of the business plan
Stepping into online markets — especially for the first time — should not require blind faith. That is why we completed every licensing, audit, and safeguarding requirement before asking anyone to fund an account.
Status
FINMA supervised
Jurisdiction
Switzerland
Client funds
Held separately
Licensed
Since 2016
Supervision we design around, not around
Fjord Markets works inside a regulatory perimeter that treats safeguarding client money as the starting condition of the business rather than an optional extra. Balances are segregated from company funds, operations are independently audited, and our reporting is written to survive inspection instead of to look good in a brochure.
The four principles below are what turn that posture into something you can check — whether you are placing your first order, running an active book, or sitting on an institutional desk that audits its counterparties for a living.
Four pillars
What the licence actually buys you
Pillar 01
Trade without second-guessing the venue
Fjord Markets holds authorisation from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) — not a badge we bought, but a status we are examined against. It confirms that our capital, controls, and conduct meet the bar set for a regulated trading provider, and that we are held to it continuously.
Pillar 02
A licence earned the slow way
Getting here took years of documentation, external audit, and uncomfortable questions answered in full. We treat the supervisory framework as an operating standard rather than a marketing line: it is the reason clients across Europe and beyond can rely on how we handle their money and their orders.
Pillar 03
Protection engineered into the stack
Regulatory duties are the floor, not the ceiling. Client balances sit in segregated accounts at tier-one banks, traffic runs over enforced TLS with end-to-end encryption, and personal and financial records live on hardened infrastructure with restricted, logged access.
Pillar 04
Pick your broker before you pick your trade
Every position you take is also a bet on the firm holding the other side of the paperwork. With a supervised, audited, security-first counterparty, that part stops being a variable — leaving you free to spend your attention on strategy, sizing, and results.
Verify our licence
Read the paperwork first. Then place the trade.
Registration details, licence number, and the name of the supervising authority are available on request — no account, no sales call, no conditions attached.
Ask for the documents