Editorial accountability

The analysts behind the tests

Broker testing is only worth as much as the people doing it are willing to put their names to. These three ran the 2026 cycle: 141 brokers over 14 months with £18,000 of the desk's own capital.

Team

Who does what

James Cole

Head of Broker Testing

Designs the testing protocol and runs the execution and slippage work. Has personally opened, funded and emptied more than forty live trading accounts since 2019.

10reviews this cycle

42live accounts opened

Ex-execution analyst, London brokerage

Priya Nair

Regulation & Safety Lead

Verifies every licence against the issuing regulator's public register and writes the trust and safety assessment. Nothing publishes until her fact-check is signed off.

10reviews this cycle

16live accounts opened

Compliance, EU investment firms

Marco Rossi

Markets & Platforms Analyst

Stress-tests platforms and pricing, runs the spread sampling schedule, and compares tooling across MT4, MT5, cTrader and proprietary web terminals.

10reviews this cycle

27live accounts opened

Former proprietary FX trader

Ownership

Which part of a review each analyst owns

No review publishes without all three signing their section.

Analyst	Role	Areas of responsibility	Accounts
James Cole	Head of Broker Testing	Execution latency and slippageWithdrawal timingTesting protocol designScorecard sign-off	42
Priya Nair	Regulation & Safety Lead	Register verificationEntity structure analysisClient-money protectionsPre-publication fact-check	16
Marco Rossi	Markets & Platforms Analyst	Spread sampling schedulePlatform and order toolingProduct range auditMobile parity checks	27

Standards

What we hold ourselves to

Every review is signed: The analyst who ran the test is named on the page, along with the person who fact-checked it. If you find an error, you know exactly whose desk it lands on.
Regulatory claims are verified at source: Each licence is opened on the issuing authority's own public register during the review cycle, under the entity a retail client is actually onboarded to.
Reviews expire: Ninety days after publication a review goes back into the testing queue. Spreads are re-sampled and licences re-checked before it is re-dated.
Commercial relationships never move a score: Scoring is complete before commercial terms are discussed, and the analyst producing a ranking cannot see whether a relationship exists.

Read the full protocol on the methodology page, or the derivation of the safety figure on the Trust Score page.