2026 · Evidence audit

Tickmill Prime (institutional prime-of-prime) — institutional liquidity provider

Tickmill Prime operates under Tickmill UK Ltd, regulated by the FCA. It offers prime-of-prime liquidity to institutional clients with a focus on FX and CFDs. The firm holds multiple licenses across different jurisdictions, but its self-measured claims and absence of venue disclosures may require further scrutiny.

Tickmill UK Ltd · London, UK · last re-checked 2026-09 · evidence score 83/100

Licence, read on the register

Regulator	Licence number	Jurisdiction	Tier	Source
FCA	717270	UK	tier-1	open source ↗
CySEC	278/15	Cyprus	tier-2	open source ↗
FSA Seychelles	SD008	Seychelles	tier-3	open source ↗
FSCA	49464	South Africa	tier-2	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

Tickmill Prime is positioned as 'Prime of Prime FX and CFD liquidity' with FCA-regulated trust, Tier-1 liquidity access via FIX API and dedicated institutional onboarding (https://www.tickmill.com/tickmill-prime)
Group licences page: Tickmill Ltd is regulated as a Securities Dealer by the Seychelles FSA, License number SD008; Tickmill Europe Ltd is authorised by CySEC, License number 278/15; Tickmill South Africa (Pty) Ltd holds FSCA FSP 49464 (https://www.tickmill.com/about/licences-and-regulation)
FCA register: TICKMILL UK LTD, firm reference number 717270 (https://register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=001b000001HjJatAAF; number also quoted in FCA clone-firm warnings)
Tickmill UK Ltd registered office: First Floor, The Bengal Wing, 9A Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4YN (own footer)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

'Ultra-low-latency connectivity' and 'proven performance' claims on the Tickmill Prime page are the firm's own marketing

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes	Venues	Connectivity	Clients accepted	Explicitly refused
FX, Precious metals, CFDs		FIX API & custom API setups (own Tickmill Prime page), MT4/MT5 (bridge integration), Clustered architecture (own page)	Institutional clients (dedicated onboarding stated on own page)

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.