2026 · Evidence audit

FXCM Pro (Stratos Group) — institutional liquidity provider

Stratos Markets Limited is authorized by the FCA and ASIC. It offers liquidity through FIX and REST APIs. Claims regarding execution speed are self-measured and not independently verified.

Stratos Markets Limited · 110 Bishopsgate, 17th Floor, London EC2N 4AY, UK (Stratos Group headquarters) · last re-checked 2026-09 · evidence score 78/100

Licence, read on the register

Regulator	Licence number	Jurisdiction	Tier	Source
FCA	217689	UK	tier-1	open source ↗
ASIC	309763	Australia	tier-1	open source ↗

Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-1 = FCA/ASIC/CFTC-class supervision, tier-2 = CySEC/FSC-Mauritius/MFSA-class, tier-3 = offshore registration. A tier-2 licence is genuine supervision without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.

What the firm commits to

Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.

Testable claims

Stratos Markets Limited is authorised and regulated in the UK by the FCA, registration number 217689 — own site footer text on fxcm.com pages
Stratos Trading Pty. Limited (trading as FXCM, AFSL 309763, ABN 31 121 934 432) is regulated by ASIC — own page fxcm.com/au/about-fxcm/global-broker
FXCM Pro partnered with Your Bourse (2023) for ultra-low-latency execution including FIX provisioning — own press release

Claims we cannot verify from outside

"new FIX session in less than 20 seconds" via Your Bourse partnership — own PR figure, not an independently measured SLA

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes	Venues	Connectivity	Clients accepted	Explicitly refused
FX spot, Metals, CFDs		FIX API, REST API	Institutional clients, Brokers, Hedge funds

A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as a disclosure, not a defect.