2026 · Evidence audit

Vantage Capital Markets LLP (VCM) — institutional liquidity provider

Vantage Capital Markets LLP is authorised and regulated by the FCA under reference number 416697. The firm specializes in wholesale broking and execution services for institutional and professional clients, excluding retail clients. It operates under a Limited Liability Partnership structure, with no founding date or published venues disclosed.

Vantage Capital Markets LLP · London, UK · last re-checked 2026-09 · evidence score 75/100

Licence, read on the register

Regulator	Licence number	Jurisdiction	Tier	Source
FCA	416697	UK	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

VCM is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (No. 416697); it provides wholesale broking services to institutional and professional clients and does not deal with any party classed as a Retail Client (https://vcmllp.com/legal-disclaimer/)
Vantage Capital Markets LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales No. OC308882, registered address 11th Floor, 30 Crown Place, London EC2A 4EB (own legal disclaimer)
FCA register: Vantage Capital Markets LLP, reference number 416697, authorised for specific activities and product types (https://register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=001b000000MfP7lAAF)
Services include wholesale brokerage and execution of cash and derivative products across equities, debt, listed derivatives and OTC products (https://vcmllp.com/)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

'Premier provider of broking services' positioning is the firm's own marketing characterisation

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes	Venues	Connectivity	Clients accepted	Explicitly refused
Cash equities & blocks, Equity derivatives, Fixed income / bonds, Listed derivatives, OTC products, Securities financing & bond repo			Institutional and professional clients (wholesale broking)	Retail clients — own disclaimer: 'VCM does not deal with any party classed as a Retail Client'

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.