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.
Ex-execution analyst, London brokerage
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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: 10 brokers over 14 months with £18,000 of the desk's own capital.
Team
Who does what
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.