Easy Markets review.

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of Easy Markets, scored 7.1 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews.

Easy Markets is not one company. “easyMarkets” is the trading name used by a set of legally separate entities under the Blue Capital Markets Group, and which one actually opens a client’s account depends on the country selected at sign-up: Easy Forex Trading Ltd for the EU/EEA, easyMarkets Pty Ltd (also referenced as Easy Markets Pty Ltd) for Australia, EF Worldwide Ltd (Seychelles) or EF Worldwide Ltd (British Virgin Islands) for most other countries, and EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd as a South African intermediary that onboards local clients on behalf of the Seychelles entity. The firm’s own sign-up modal states that the account is “registered with” whichever of these entities matches the client’s declared residence, which means the governing law, the regulator, and the protections attached to the account are not fixed until that selection is made.

We fetched easyMarkets’ own site from nine countries in August 2026 for this review: the UAE, Germany, the UK Financial Conduct Authority register, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and South Africa. Its USD 6.00 EURUSD round turn on a fixed spread, compared with USD 5.00 on the Zero account at Exness, which we also review, is why fees score 9 rather than higher.

Overview Table

Facts List

• easyMarkets is a trading name used across several legally distinct entities, not a single regulated company, per the firm’s own sign-up and legal pages.
• The Seychelles FSA lists EF Worldwide Ltd, trading as easyMarkets SimplyHonest, as a regulated securities dealer under SD056, though the register itself does not publish licence numbers.
• The BVI FSC lists EF Worldwide Ltd as regulated for Dealing as Agent and Dealing as Principal under SIBA/L/20/1135, in a snapshot we pulled 28 days ago.
• South Africa’s FSCA lists FSP 54018 as held by EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd with status Authorized, but the firm’s own sign-up disclosure states that entity “acts solely as an intermediary” and that the actual CFD counterparty, EF Worldwide Ltd, “falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight.”
• The Cyprus CySEC register shows an active investment firm licence, 079/07, for Easy Forex Trading Ltd.
• The FCA register shows Easy Forex Trading Ltd, found by firm name under reference 471938, as No longer authorised; that status means the permission has ended and cannot support a current regulatory claim.
• ASIC’s register confirms AFS licence 246566 held by EASYMARKETS PTY LTD, and the ASIC company dataset separately confirms the company (ABN 73 107 184510) as registered.
• The Seychelles Business and Company Search confirms EF Worldwide Ltd under registration C8422794, though the firm prints it as 8422794-1 and the registry publishes no status or incorporation date.
• The BVI and South African company registries for EF Worldwide Ltd and EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd were not checked in this review, since both registries only answer lookups made by a person in a browser.
• The firm’s own homepage footer states that “Blue Capital Markets Ltd is not regulated by ASIC,” meaning only the local operating entity, not the group parent, carries the Australian licence.

Why our score for easyMarkets moved

Our previous review scored this firm 7.6 out of 10; this review scores it 7.1. We are restating that as our own assessment against current evidence, not as a claim that the firm got worse: the criteria and what we checked this time both changed. What pulled the overall figure down is the regulation score, set at 5.5, and the support score, also set at 5.5. On regulation, the entity a client actually deals with depends on a country picker at sign-up, and one of those entities, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, shows as No longer authorised on the FCA register; the South African arm is also, by the firm’s own wording, a mere intermediary sitting in front of a Seychelles company that sits outside FSCA’s oversight. Fees, by contrast, scored 9: the firm’s accounts page shows zero commission and zero account fees across every listed account type, and payment-method fees are described as not charged by easyMarkets itself. Platform scored 8.3, reflecting the spread of proprietary tools (easyMarkets Web & App, TradingView integration) alongside MT4 and MT5. Reviews scored 7.4.

What a prospective client is actually signing up for

Because the operative legal entity is set by a dropdown at registration, the protections attached to an easyMarkets account are not uniform. The firm’s own sign-up confirmation for the Seychelles route states plainly that EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of… the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II and that “there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” The same flow requires the client to confirm that “the decision was made independently and at your own exclusive initiative and that no solicitation or recommendation has been made by easyMarkets or any other entity within the group” before the account opens. Clients directed instead to the Cyprus-regulated entity get materially different leverage caps under CySEC’s retail rules, and the firm’s own legal page notes that its execution-quality and capital-adequacy disclosures apply “ONLY to clients that are classified as Wholesale or Professional,” leaving retail clients without access to those reports.

Key Takeaways

The score moved from 7.6 to 7.1

Our previous review of this broker scored it 7.6/10; this review scores it 7.1/10. That is a change in our assessment, not a claim that the firm got worse: regulation sits at 5.5 and support at 5.5 in this pass, and both are pulled down by evidence that sits in the record now, in particular the FCA register showing Easy Forex Trading Ltd as no longer authorised and the multi-entity sign-up structure described below.

Which entity actually takes the trade

EF Worldwide Ltd, EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd, Easy Markets Pty Ltd and Easy Forex Trading Ltd are all named on the firm’s own pages as the account holder a client ends up with, and which one applies is decided by the country selected in the sign-up form, not by a single group-wide licence. The Seychelles FSA lists EF Worldwide Ltd (trading as easyMarkets SimplyHonest) as a regulated securities dealer under SD056, and the BVI FSC lists the same entity as regulated for Dealing as Agent and Dealing as Principal under SIBA/L/20/1135; neither register publishes licence numbers, so both numbers remain the firm’s own claim rather than a register-confirmed figure. The FSCA register shows FSP 54018 held by EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd, status Authorized, and the CySEC register shows an active investment firm licence entry for Easy Forex Trading Ltd under 079/07. The ASIC register shows AFS licence 246566 held by EASYMARKETS PTY LTD, and the same company appears in the ASIC Company Dataset as ACN 107 184 510 / ABN 73 107 184 510, status registered as at the 2026-09-14 snapshot.

Against that, the FCA register shows Easy Forex Trading Ltd, firm reference 471938, as No longer authorised. That is a permission that has ended, and the firm’s own pages describe the residual UK position as limited regulation under the Financial Services Contracts Regime, which lets an EEA firm service only pre-existing UK contracts for a limited period. The firm’s own sign-up disclosure for the Seychelles entity states plainly that “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” South African clients face a similar split: EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd’s own disclosure says it acts solely as an intermediary in terms of the FAIS Act… EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight, meaning the FSCA-authorised local entity is not the one taking the other side of the trade.

What Easy Markets charges

The firm’s own account-types page lists Commission: 0 and Account Fees: 0 across all six listed account types, Standard, VIP, MT4 Standard, MT4 VIP, MT5 Standard and MT5 VIP. The same page gives the Standard account’s minimum deposit as 25 USD with EUR/USD spreads from 0.6 pips fixed, and MT4/MT5 VIP tiers at a 2500 USD minimum with EUR/USD from 0.6 pips floating; MT4/MT5 Standard tiers carry the same 25 USD minimum with EUR/USD from 1.2 pips floating, and max leverage on the MT4/MT5 tiers is given as 1:2000 against 1:400 on the Standard web/app tier. Deposit and withdrawal fees are reported by our earlier review as free from easyMarkets across cards, bank wire and e-wallets, with the caveat that a payment provider or bank can still charge its own fee; that figure is second-hand and we did not fetch the payments page ourselves.

Leverage is not the same number everywhere. The CySEC-regulated EU entity, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, caps leverage at 1:30 on major forex pairs, 1:20 on AUD/USD and NZD/USD, and 1:20 on gold, while the Seychelles/BVI-routed entity advertises up to 1:400 on the web/app and TradingView platforms and up to 1:2000 on MT5. The firm’s own homepage footnote also narrows one of its headline features: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView,” so a client trading on MT4 or MT5 does not get it.

Platforms and what they leave out

Easy Markets runs its own Web & App platform alongside TradingView and MetaTrader 4/5, and markets two proprietary tools on the own-brand platform, dealCancellation for undoing a losing trade and Freeze Rate for locking in a rate, plus an easyTrade product it describes as letting clients trade “without margin requirements.” Reclassification to a Professional account removes the retail leverage caps entirely: the firm’s own Singapore-facing page shows EUR/USD moving from 1:30 retail to 1:400 professional, and XAU/USD from 1:20 retail to 1:1000 professional, a change that also typically strips other retail protections such as negative balance protection.

Retail clients are also excluded from part of the firm’s own disclosure set: the legal documents page notes that its RTS 27 Execution Quality reports, Execution Quality Summary Statements and Pillar III Disclosure are “applicable ONLY to clients that are classified as Wholesale or Professional,” so a retail client cannot check those figures against their own account.

Getting hold of Easy Markets

Support runs across live chat, WhatsApp (+357 99 248 926, accepted Monday to Thursday 08:00-21:00 and Friday 08:00-24:00, GMT+2/GMT+3), Facebook Messenger, WeChat, phone (+357 25 828 899, stated as available 24/5) and separate emails for general support, complaints and partners. A Sydney dealing desk phone line and email are listed separately for the Australian entity. Regulation and support are the two figures pulling the overall score down in this pass: fees score 9 and the platform set scores 8.3 on the same evidence set, so the drag here is concentrated in the split-entity regulatory picture and the support channel list, not in what the firm charges to trade.

Licenses & Regulation

Easy Markets is not one regulated entity but a group of at least four, and which one a client actually signs with depends on the country selected in the sign up form. That structure, and how much protection each entity actually carries, is what drives this section’s score down to 5.5 out of 10 in this review, from 7.6 previously. The move is our assessment under the current scoring criteria against the evidence gathered this time, not a claim that the firm’s regulatory position has changed.

The entities behind the easyMarkets brand

The group operating name is easyMarkets, sitting under Blue Capital Markets Group. Clients in the UK/global signup flow are registered with EF Worldwide Ltd, licensed in Seychelles. Clients routed through the UAE and several Asian markets go to EF Worldwide Ltd, licensed in the British Virgin Islands. South African signups onboard through EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd, but that entity’s own disclosure states it acts solely as an intermediary under the FAIS Act, with the actual CFD counterparty being EF Worldwide Ltd in Seychelles, outside FSCA oversight. EU and EEA clients are registered with Easy Forex Trading Ltd in Cyprus. Australian clients go to easyMarkets Pty Ltd (also referenced as Easy Markets Pty Ltd), and the same page notes the group parent, Blue Capital Markets Ltd, is not itself regulated by ASIC. The client does not know in advance which of these entities, and which governing law, will apply until the country is selected in the sign up flow.

What each register actually shows

We searched the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA), the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (FSC), the South African Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), running a positive control against a known listed firm first so an empty result could be read as a genuine absence.

The Seychelles FSA lists EF Worldwide Ltd, trading as easyMarkets SimplyHonest, as a regulated securities dealer, confirming the firm’s own claim of licence SD056, though the register itself does not publish licence numbers. The BVI FSC lists EF Worldwide Ltd as regulated for Dealing as Agent and Dealing as Principal, confirming licence SIBA/L/20/1135 as the firm states it, again without the register publishing licence numbers itself; that snapshot is 28 days old. The FSCA lists FSP 54018 as held by EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd with status Authorized. The CySEC register shows an active investment firm licence entry, number 079/07, for Easy Forex Trading Ltd, with no revocation, suspension or conflicting status language present. The ASIC register confirms AFS licence 246566 held by easyMarkets Pty Ltd (ABN 73 107 184510), on record since 26 March 2004.

The FCA register is the outlier. Searching by name, since the claim on the firm’s pages quotes no FRN, we found Easy Forex Trading Ltd listed under firm reference 471938 with status No longer authorised. That status means the UK permission has ended and cannot support a current claim of FCA regulation for this entity.

Company registrations versus licences

Company registry entries confirm the corporate vehicles but say nothing about financial licensing. The Seychelles Business and Company Search shows EF Worldwide Ltd at registration C8422794 (the firm’s own materials print it as 8422794 1), industry listed as Business Services, with no status or incorporation date published. The ASIC Company Dataset confirms easyMarkets Pty Ltd as ACN 107 184 510, ABN 73 107 184 510, an Australian proprietary company registered 26 November 2003 with status registered, as at the snapshot dated 14 September 2026. Two other company numbers the firm cites, the BVI registration 2031075 and the South African registration 2023/187587/07, were not checked: those registries require a person to query them in a browser, so this is a gap in our checking rather than a finding about the firm. A second Seychelles company search for “Worldwide” returned results but did not surface EF Worldwide Ltd among them, which again is not established as an absence.

What this means for a client of EF Worldwide Ltd

The firm’s own sign up disclosure for the Seychelles entity states plainly: “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” Clients steered to Seychelles or BVI by their country selection get none of the MiFID II protections or compensation scheme cover that an EU client of Easy Forex Trading Ltd would have, and the FSA and FSC registers that confirm those entities’ licences do not publish licence numbers of their own to check the firm’s cited figures against.

How to Trade

Which instruments and leverage apply is decided before a single trade goes on, because easyMarkets routes new accounts to different legal entities by country of residence, and the entities do not offer the same terms. The account sign-up flow puts UK/most global signups with EF Worldwide Ltd (Seychelles), AE/ID/JP/TH/VN signups with EF Worldwide Ltd (British Virgin Islands), Australian residents with easyMarkets Pty Ltd, and EU/EEA residents with Easy Forex Trading Ltd (Cyprus), according to the firm’s own fee page. The firm’s German-localised site states the CySEC entity caps leverage at 1:30 on major forex pairs, 1:20 on AUD/USD and NZD/USD, and 1:20 on gold, while the same page shows the Seychelles/BVI-routed entity advertising leverage up to 1:400 on the Web, App and TradingView platforms and up to 1:2000 on MT5. A trader does not choose this cap directly; the country field in the sign-up form does.

What Easy Markets lists as tradable

The firm’s fee page groups instruments into Forex, Metals, Commodities, Indices, Options (Vanilla Options), Cryptocurrencies and Shares. The Singapore-facing page names six cryptocurrency CFDs specifically: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Stellar and Bitcoin Cash. Both pages describe these as CFD instruments rather than the underlying asset.

Four platforms, four different rulebooks

The same instrument does not trade under the same terms depending on which of the firm’s four platforms carries the order. Easy Markets’ own accounts page sets out fixed spreads on its proprietary Web/App platform and on TradingView, with EUR/USD quoted from 0.6 pips, leverage capped at 1:400, and commission and account fees both listed as 0. MT4 Standard and MT5 Standard, by the same page, run floating spreads instead of fixed ones, quote EUR/USD from 1.2 pips, and allow leverage up to 1:2000; the MT4 VIP and MT5 VIP tiers tighten that to EUR/USD from 0.6 pips for a $2,500 minimum deposit, still at 0 commission. So the fixed-spread, lower-leverage proprietary platform and the floating-spread, higher-leverage MetaTrader platforms are not two views of the same product; they are two different execution models sold under one brand.

One feature does not carry across all four. A footnote on the firm’s Singapore-facing homepage states: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView.” Anyone trading on MT4 or MT5 does not get the no-slippage guarantee the marketing elsewhere on the same site leads with.

The tools unique to easyMarkets’ own platform

The firm’s homepage markets two proprietary order-management tools that exist only on its own Web/App platform: dealCancellation, described as a way to undo a losing trade, and Freeze Rate, described as a way to lock in a rate. The same page describes an easyTrade product as letting clients trade “without margin requirements.” None of these three appear in the MT4/MT5 or TradingView listings, so they are specific to whichever entity and platform combination a client’s sign-up routes them to.

Retail caps disappear under a Professional account

The Singapore-facing page sets retail and Professional leverage side by side for the same instruments: EUR/USD at 1:30 for a retail client against 1:400 for a Professional one, and XAU/USD at 1:20 retail against 1:1000 Professional. A Professional Account tier is also advertised on the same site with a banner reading “Trade up to 1:2000 Leverage on MT5.” Reclassification as Professional removes the retail leverage ceiling entirely rather than adjusting it, and typically drops the retail protections that come with the standard cap.

Who is actually on the other side of the trade

For South African clients, the firm’s own disclosure on its South Africa page states that “EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd acts solely as an intermediary in terms of the FAIS Act, rendering only an intermediary service (i.e., no market making is conducted by FSP) in relation to derivative products (CFDs) offered by EF Worldwide Ltd (i.e., the Product Supplier).” The same clause goes on: “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight and as such, FSA’s laws and regulations will apply in relation to your account.” A South African client opening a CFD position is therefore trading against the Seychelles entity, not the FSCA-licensed local one, even though the local one handles onboarding.

Account Types

The account someone actually opens at Easy Markets depends on which legal entity the sign-up form assigns once a country of residence is selected: Easy Forex Trading Ltd for the EU/EEA, Easy Markets Pty Ltd for Australia, or EF Worldwide Ltd in either its Seychelles or British Virgin Islands form for most other markets. The account names, minimum deposits and commission structure below come from the firm’s own UK account page, which sits on the Seychelles/BVI side of that gate.

What easyMarkets’ own account page lists

Easy Markets’ account-types page names six live tiers, and every one of them shows the same commission and account-fee line: zero.

The step between Standard and VIP on MT4 and MT5 is entirely about spread and the $2,500 entry ticket, not about commission: the page prices both tiers at zero commission and zero account fees. A footnote on the firm’s homepage narrows the Standard tier’s headline feature further: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView,” so an MT4 or MT5 account, Standard or VIP, does not carry that guarantee.

Why the leverage column moves so much between entities

The 1:400 and 1:2000 caps above belong to the Seychelles/BVI-routed EF Worldwide Ltd side of the business. The firm’s German-facing page shows the CySEC-regulated entity, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, capping leverage at 1:30 on major forex pairs, 1:20 on AUD/USD and NZD/USD, and 1:20 on gold. A trader opening what is nominally the same “Standard” account can end up under a leverage cap ten or more times tighter, depending only on which country they selected at sign-up. Easy Markets also sells a Professional reclassification, advertised on its Singapore-facing page as unlocking leverage up to 1:2000 on MT5; the same page sets out how far that moves the retail caps, putting EUR/USD at 1:30 retail against 1:400 professional and XAU/USD at 1:20 retail against 1:1000 professional. Reclassifying as Professional carries no minimum deposit figure on the pages we read, but it typically strips the retail protections that come with the lower cap.

What an earlier review reported about tiering

An earlier review of Easy Markets that this one is rewriting described a different, three-tier account structure: a Standard account from $25, a Premium account from $2,000 with a dedicated account manager, and a VIP account from $10,000 with a senior account manager and priority withdrawals. It also described a demo account funded with $10,000 in virtual money and no stated expiry, and reported that deposits and withdrawals by card, wire transfer and e-wallet carry no fee from easyMarkets itself, though the card network, bank or e-wallet provider might charge their own. None of that came from a page this review fetched, so it is carried here as what the earlier review found rather than as the firm’s current wording, and it does not match the MT4/MT5/Standard-VIP structure the firm’s own account page shows today.

Where this leaves the score

TrueBroker’s previous review scored Easy Markets 7.6 out of 10; this review scores it 7.1. The fees criterion here sits at 9 out of 10, which the zero commission and zero account fees posted against all six tiers above supports directly. The lower overall figure reflects this review’s assessment across the full set of criteria scored this time, including regulation and support, not any change in what Easy Markets charges to open or run an account.

Negative Balance Protection

easyMarkets’ own account comparison page lists “Negative Balance Protection” as a feature of the Standard account, the tier traded through the easyMarkets Web and App platform and through TradingView, and pairs it there with “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage”. That same page does not repeat either line on the rows for MT4 Standard, MT4 VIP, MT5 Standard or MT5 VIP: those four rows list only floating spreads, leverage and a commission of 0. We are reporting what the table shows rather than what it omits to say about those four accounts specifically, but a client choosing MetaTrader over the proprietary platform is choosing a row that does not carry the same protection wording in the material we pulled.

Our earlier review described a “Standard Account” with a $25 minimum deposit, fixed spreads from 0.8 pips, leverage up to 1:400 and negative balance protection bundled with a free guaranteed stop loss and take profit. That account shape lines up with what easyMarkets’ own page shows for its Standard tier, though the $25 minimum and the negative balance protection line come to us from that earlier writeup rather than from a page we fetched directly.

The entity behind the account sets how far a loss can run before margin closes it out

How close a client sits to a margin call is a function of leverage, and easyMarkets does not offer one leverage regime. The Cyprus entity, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, caps leverage at 1:30 on major forex pairs, 1:20 on AUD/USD and NZD/USD, and 1:20 on gold. The CySEC entry for licence 079/07 is confirmed on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s own register, so the 1:30 cap applies to an entity whose licensing we verified independently, not only to a claim on the firm’s site.

Reclassifying as a Professional client removes the retail leverage cap

easyMarkets’ Singapore-facing page sets out a Professional tier, and states the retail-versus-professional gap in concrete terms: EUR/USD at 1:30 for retail clients against 1:400 for professional clients, and XAU/USD at 1:20 retail against 1:1000 professional. Nothing in the pages we read describes what a client must show to be reclassified as Professional, only that the leverage ceiling moves once that happens. A retail account and a reclassified account carry very different distances to a margin call on the same instrument.

What easyMarkets markets as tools for cutting a loss before it hits the account

Outside the leverage figures, easyMarkets’ UK-facing homepage names two proprietary features it calls dealCancellation, described as a way to undo a losing trade, and Freeze Rate, described as locking in a rate, alongside an easyTrade product the page says lets clients trade “without margin requirements”. The Singapore homepage’s own footnote narrows one of the platform’s other loss-limiting claims: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView”. Read against the account table, that footnote means a client on MT4 or MT5, where the account rows show floating rather than fixed spreads and do not list the no-slippage guarantee, is trading without the one feature the firm markets as removing slippage risk from a stop loss.

What stands behind the account if easyMarkets cannot cover a loss

Negative balance protection only matters if there is a solvent counterparty to honour it. Clients whose country selection routes them to EF Worldwide Ltd are told directly, in the sign-up modal: “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” South African clients see a related structure spelled out in their own onboarding disclosure: EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd, the FSCA-authorised entity holding FSP 54018, “acts solely as an intermediary in terms of the FAIS Act, rendering only an intermediary service (i.e., no market making is conducted by FSP),” while the actual CFD counterparty, EF Worldwide Ltd, “falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight” so that Seychelles law governs the account instead. The FSCA register confirms FSP 54018 as authorised, but that authorisation covers the intermediary taking the order, not the entity that would owe a client money if a negative balance protection promise had to be honoured.

Trading Instruments

The pricing page’s instrument tabs list seven categories: Forex, Metals, Commodities, Indices, Options, Cryptocurrencies and Shares (easyMarkets’ fee page). The same set appears on the regional homepage, which names six tradable cryptocurrencies specifically: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Stellar and Bitcoin Cash (easyMarkets’ homepage). Options are branded as Vanilla Options rather than exchange-listed contracts. Both pages are category tabs and a “ways to trade” list rather than a full instrument sheet, so we can report the categories on offer but not a count of symbols within each.

How easyMarkets lets a client reach those markets

Four routes are advertised: the proprietary easyMarkets Web and App platform, TradingView, MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 (easyMarkets’ homepage). The proprietary platform carries two features not available elsewhere: dealCancellation, described as a way to undo a losing trade, and Freeze Rate, described as locking in a rate, plus an easyTrade product the site says lets clients trade “without margin requirements” (easyMarkets’ homepage). None of that is available on MT4 or MT5, which the same page positions as the route for Expert Advisor users instead. A footnote on the regional homepage narrows one of the platform’s headline guarantees: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView” (easyMarkets’ homepage). A client trading the same instrument on MT4 or MT5 does not get that guarantee, even though the guarantee is advertised prominently on pages that also promote MT4 and MT5 as trading options.

Leverage on the same instrument depends on which easyMarkets entity opens the account

Which legal entity ends up holding the account is decided by the country selected at sign-up, and the maximum leverage on the same instrument differs sharply between them. The EU entity, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, caps leverage at 1:30 on major forex pairs, 1:20 on AUD/USD and NZD/USD, and 1:20 on gold (easyMarkets’ German-localised page). The Seychelles or BVI-routed entity, EF Worldwide Ltd, advertises leverage up to 1:400 on the Web, App and TradingView platforms, and up to 1:2000 on MT4 and MT5 (easyMarkets’ homepage and Singapore-localised page). A client does not choose the entity directly; the sign-up form’s country field does that for them, so the leverage and regulatory regime attached to a given instrument is set before the client sees an account screen.

A further split sits inside each entity: reclassifying as a Professional client removes the retail leverage cap on the same instruments. The Singapore-localised page gives EUR/USD as 1:30 for retail against 1:400 for professional, and XAU/USD as 1:20 for retail against 1:1000 for professional (easyMarkets’ Singapore-localised page), and a banner on the same page advertises “Trade up to 1:2000 Leverage on MT5” against a Professional Account tier. Professional classification typically strips other retail protections along with the leverage cap, though this page does not itself spell out which ones.

What the account pages show for cost of access

The account-types page we fetched lists Standard, MT4 Standard, MT4 VIP, MT5 Standard and MT5 VIP tiers, each showing Commission: 0 and Account Fees: 0 (easyMarkets’ account-types page). The Standard tier on the Web/App/TradingView platform is quoted with fixed spreads, EUR/USD from 0.6 pips and a minimum deposit of 25 USD; MT4 and MT5 Standard carry floating spreads with EUR/USD from 1.2 pips at the same 25 USD minimum, and MT4 VIP and MT5 VIP tighten that to EUR/USD from 0.6 pips at a 2,500 USD minimum (easyMarkets’ account-types page). That page is fixed-spread pricing for the proprietary platform and floating-spread pricing for MT4/MT5 side by side, so the “from” figure a client sees depends on which of the four platforms above they pick, not just which account tier.

Education & Analysis

easyMarkets offers four ways to place a trade, and which of them a client actually gets depends on account type rather than personal preference alone. The firm’s own account pages list a proprietary easyMarkets platform available on web and app, TradingView, MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, each carried across the Standard, MT4 Standard/VIP and MT5 Standard/VIP tiers.

The proprietary easyMarkets platform and TradingView

The GB account page describes the Standard tier as running on the “easyMarkets Web/App, TradingView” combination, with fixed spreads, EUR/USD quoted from 0.6 pips, maximum leverage of 1:400, and commission and account fees both listed as 0. The Singapore-facing page adds detail on the TradingView integration specifically: “20+ chart types, 400+ indicators, 110+ drawing tools, 13 alert conditions,” plus access to the TradingView social network for sharing ideas. Both the GB and Singapore pages also promote two features unique to the house platform, dealCancellation, described as a way to undo a losing trade, and Freeze Rate, described as a way to lock in a price, alongside an easyTrade product the site says lets clients trade “without margin requirements.” None of these three appear anywhere in the MetaTrader account descriptions, and the Singapore homepage’s own footnote is explicit about the boundary: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView.” A client who trades on MT4 or MT5 does not get that no-slippage guarantee, whatever the site’s general marketing implies about the brand as a whole.

MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 on easyMarkets

The MT4 and MT5 tiers run on floating rather than fixed spreads. The GB accounts page quotes MT4 Standard and MT5 Standard from 1.2 pips on EUR/USD with a $25 minimum deposit, and MT4 VIP and MT5 VIP from 0.6 pips with a $2,500 minimum, all at 0 commission and 0 account fees. Expert Advisors are permitted on both, per the GB platform page. The leverage figure attached to the MetaTrader tiers is markedly higher than the proprietary platform’s: the GB and Singapore pages both list a maximum of 1:2000 on MT4 and MT5, against 1:400 on the Web/App/TradingView route, and the Singapore page separately banners “Trade up to 1:2000 Leverage on MT5” for a Professional account tier with no minimum deposit stated on that page. That leverage ceiling, though, is specific to the non-EU entities. Retail clients onboarded to Easy Forex Trading Ltd, the CySEC-regulated entity, get nowhere near it: the Singapore page’s own leverage table shows EUR/USD capped at 1:30 and XAU/USD at 1:20 for retail accounts, rising to 1:400 and 1:1000 respectively only for clients reclassified as Professional. Which entity, and which leverage regime, a given client ends up under is decided by the country selected at sign-up rather than by anything on the platform pages themselves.

Mobile access and what easyMarkets does not publish here

The GB legal page lists a mobile app for iOS and Android under the banner “Trade On Mobile,” carrying the same proprietary-platform toolset as the web version. Beyond the platform names, spread figures and the TradingView tool count above, the pages we fetched do not describe charting depth on the proprietary app or web platform itself, nor do they publish execution-speed data, VPS hosting, or algorithmic-trading support beyond the MT4/MT5 Expert Advisor allowance already noted. Where the evidence is silent on a feature, that silence means we did not find a page describing it, not that easyMarkets does not offer it.

Special Offers

The pages we fetched for this review, the pricing and accounts pages, the legal documents page, and the country-routed homepages, describe spreads, leverage tiers, commission and account fees. None of them is a promotions page, and nothing in the material we hold mentions a deposit bonus, a cashback scheme, or a time-limited credit tied to opening an account. That is a statement about what we found, not a statement that Easy Markets runs no such thing: we did not fetch a dedicated promotions page for this firm, so whether one exists is outside what we can report here.

What Easy Markets prices through account tiers instead

The accounts page we read sets out six account variants, all with commission of 0 and account fees of 0. The Standard account, run on the easyMarkets Web/App platform and TradingView, needs a 25 USD minimum deposit, offers fixed spreads with EUR/USD from 0.6 pips, and caps leverage at 1:400. The MT4 Standard and MT5 Standard accounts share the same 25 USD minimum but run floating spreads from 1.2 pips on EUR/USD with leverage up to 1:2000. Stepping up to MT4 VIP or MT5 VIP needs a 2,500 USD minimum deposit, in exchange for a tighter EUR/USD spread from 0.6 pips at the same 1:2000 leverage cap. This is a deposit-size ladder that buys a tighter spread, not a promotional credit.

An earlier review of this firm described a differently-labelled three-tier structure, a Standard account from $25, a Premium account from $2,000, and a VIP account from $10,000, and said the higher tiers added a dedicated account manager, priority withdrawals with higher limits, and invitations to VIP events. We have not verified those account names or perks ourselves on a fetched page, so we repeat them here as what the earlier review reported, not as something Easy Markets’ own pages told us.

The demo account and the guaranteed stop loss feature

The same earlier review described a demo account funded with $10,000 in virtual balance and unlimited validity, alongside real-time market data. A feature the firm markets more widely, a guaranteed stop loss and take profit with no slippage, comes with a limit we found stated directly on the Singapore-routed homepage: “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView.” A client trading through MT4 or MT5 does not get that guarantee, whatever tier their account sits in.

Deposit and withdrawal costs the earlier review found

On payment costs, the earlier review reported that Easy Markets itself charges no fee on deposits or withdrawals across cards, bank wire transfer and e-wallets, while payment providers or banks may still apply their own charges, and it gave a $50 minimum for cards and e-wallets against a $100 minimum for wire transfers. We pass this on as what that earlier review found rather than as something read from the firm’s own fee page in this evidence set.

Trust signals in place of a promotional push

Where the homepage we fetched tries to draw in new business, it leans on reputation rather than a conditional offer. The Singapore-routed homepage displays “Excellent 4.9 Based on 4.9k reviews” attributed to Trustpilot and calls the firm “#1 Broker on TradingView”, and lists a run of award claims: TradingView Broker Awards 2026 “Customer Support Excellence”, TradingView Broker Awards 2025 “Broker of the Year”, ForexBrokers.com 2025 “Best in Class Beginners”, plus three 2024 regional awards from the Smart Vision Investment Summit in Egypt, the Forex Expo Dubai, and the Smart Vision Summit in South Africa. The same page also states that “easyMarkets has been serving its customers since 2001” as a longevity claim. None of this is something a client can claim or redeem; it is marketing copy about the firm’s standing, sitting where a promotions section might otherwise be.

Opening an Account

Signing up starts with a country selection, and that one field decides which legal entity ends up holding the account. The sign-up modal on easyMarkets’ own fee page states that the trading account is registered with one of several different legal entities in the group, depending on the country of residence entered in the sign-up form: Easy Forex Trading Ltd for the EU/EEA, Easy Markets Pty Ltd for Australia, EF Worldwide Ltd (British Virgin Islands) or EF Worldwide Ltd (Seychelles) for most other regions. A client does not know in advance which entity, governing law and regulatory regime will apply to the account until that country field is submitted.

Which easyMarkets entity a new account lands with

For applicants routed to the Seychelles entity, the sign-up modal itself carries a disclosure worth reading before clicking through it: “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” South African applicants get a similar routing quietly built into onboarding. EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd is the entity a South African client deals with locally, but its own disclosure states it “acts solely as an intermediary in terms of the FAIS Act, rendering only an intermediary service (i.e., no market making is conducted by FSP) in relation to derivative products (CFDs) offered by EF Worldwide Ltd (i.e., the Product Supplier)… EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight.” The actual CFD counterparty for a South African signup is therefore the Seychelles company, not the FSCA-authorised local one.

What easyMarkets asks a new client to confirm

Two affirmations sit inside the account-opening flow rather than in a document a client reads separately. Applicants routed away from the EU entity must tick past this line: “Before you proceed, please confirm that the decision was made independently and at your own exclusive initiative and that no solicitation or recommendation has been made by easyMarkets or any other entity within the group.” A second confirmation, tied to the Client Agreement, covers what the identity and financial information collected at sign-up is actually used for: “You acknowledge and agree that the financial information provided to easyMarkets, is for AML and CTF Compliance purposes only and that easyMarkets will not take into consideration this information in respect to any personal financial advice that may be offered during the business relationship. You further agree that you have received your own independent financial advice or made your own decision to trade CFDs and you acknowledge the full scope of risks entailed in trading.” In practice this means the identity and income documents collected during verification are being gathered for anti-money-laundering checks, not to assess whether CFDs are a suitable product for the applicant, and the client is asked to sign off on that distinction before an account is opened.

Where a client’s leverage needs go beyond the retail caps, easyMarkets’ Singapore-facing page advertises reclassification to a “Professional Account” tier, with a banner offering leverage up to 1:2000 on MT5. The same page sets out what that reclassification actually changes: on EUR/USD, maximum leverage moves from 1:30 for a retail client to 1:400 for a professional one; on XAU/USD, from 1:20 to 1:1000. Professional classification of this kind typically strips other retail protections along with the leverage cap, though the evidence gathered here covers only the leverage figures themselves.

Who easyMarkets will not open an account for

The Seychelles-entity fee page lists residents of the following as excluded outright: the United States, Israel, British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario, Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Japan, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Panama, the Russian Federation, Seychelles itself, and Venezuela. The BVI-entity page carries the same list minus Japan, but its accompanying legal page states separately that “this website is not aimed at residents in Japan and India.” Spain is excluded from every entity’s pages checked here for a stated reason: Due to CNMV intervention measures on marketing/distribution/sale of CFDs and other leveraged instruments, the company currently does not accept residents of Spain. The EU entity’s own page adds a narrower restriction on top of the Spain exclusion: “Easy Forex Trading Limited provides investment and ancillary services to residents of the European Union and the European Economic Area. The Company does not provide its services to residents of Spain. The Company restricts the provision of CFDs to Belgian Clients.” Belgian applicants are not excluded from the firm altogether, but the CFD product line specifically is restricted for them.

Minimum deposit to open an account with easyMarkets

easyMarkets’ own account-comparison page gives the minimum deposit for its Standard account, and for the MT4 and MT5 Standard variants, as 25 USD, with commission and account fees both listed as 0. The MT4 VIP and MT5 VIP tiers on the same page carry a 2,500 USD minimum. An earlier review of easyMarkets, not verified against a page fetched for this write-up, additionally described a Premium account at a $2,000 minimum and a VIP account at $10,000, alongside a demo account funded with $10,000 in virtual balance; those figures should be read as reported by that earlier review rather than as confirmed from easyMarkets’ current pages. That same earlier review put payment-method minimums lower than the account minimum itself: $50 for card and e-wallet deposits, $100 for a bank wire, with processing described as instant for cards and e-wallets and one to three business days for a wire.

Deposits & Withdrawals

The fee page we fetched for the Seychelles/BVI-routed accounts lists Commission: 0 and Account Fees: 0 across every account variant we checked: Standard, VIP, MT4 Standard, MT4 VIP, MT5 Standard and MT5 VIP. That fee page is what this review’s fees score of 9/10 rests on, and it is the main reason this review’s overall score has moved to 7.1/10 from the 7.6/10 we gave previously. The earlier review’s own figures on deposit and withdrawal fees, restated below, point the same direction; what pulls the overall number down are the regulation and support scores (5.5 each), not this section.

What easyMarkets charges to deposit and withdraw

Our earlier review reported that easyMarkets charges no fee of its own on deposits made by credit or debit card, bank wire transfer, e-wallet or local payment method, and no fee of its own on withdrawals by card, wire or e-wallet, in both cases noting that the card network, bank or e-wallet provider may still apply its own charge. We have not fetched a page that itemises this directly, so we’re restating that earlier review’s account rather than quoting a document of the firm’s own.

Minimum deposit varies by which account you land on

The account page we fetched gives a minimum deposit of 25 USD for the Standard, MT4 Standard and MT5 Standard accounts, rising to 2500 USD for MT4 VIP and MT5 VIP. The earlier review’s account breakdown uses a different tier structure and different figures: a Standard Account at $25, a Premium Account at $2,000, and a VIP Account at $10,000. We’re reporting both as they came to us rather than reconciling them, since the two describe different account naming schemes and we did not fetch a page that lines them up against each other.

On payment method minimums, the earlier review put the floor at $50 for card deposits and e-wallet deposits (instant processing), and $100 for bank wire transfers (1 to 3 business days). Local payment methods for China, Europe and Australia, listed as UnionPay, Sofort and Bpay, carry a processing time the earlier review said varies by provider rather than a stated minimum.

Figures in this table come from our earlier review, not from a payment page we fetched ourselves.

Which easyMarkets entity actually holds the money

Before a deposit is even made, the sign-up flow we read on the firm’s UK fees page routes a new account to one of four legal entities based on the country selected: Easy Forex Trading Ltd for the EU/EEA, Easy Markets Pty Ltd for Australia, or EF Worldwide Ltd registered in either the British Virgin Islands or Seychelles. Which entity a depositor ends up with determines what happens to their money if the firm runs into trouble. For the Seychelles routing, the sign-up modal itself states: “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” No compensation scheme means a client whose funds sit with that entity has no fallback fund to claim against if EF Worldwide Ltd becomes insolvent.

South African signups add a further layer: the disclosure on the firm’s South African home page states that “EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd acts solely as an intermediary in terms of the FAIS Act, rendering only an intermediary service (i.e., no market making is conducted by FSP) in relation to derivative products (CFDs) offered by EF Worldwide Ltd (i.e., the Product Supplier)… EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight and as such, FSA’s laws and regulations will apply in relation to your account.” The FSCA register does confirm FSP 54018 as authorized and held by EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd, but that authorization covers the intermediary, not the entity actually holding a South African client’s deposited funds; deposits and withdrawals for those clients are ultimately governed by Seychelles law under the FSA, per the firm’s own disclosure.

Tier-based withdrawal handling

The earlier review describes the VIP Account tier, with a stated minimum deposit of $10,000, as carrying “priority withdrawals & higher limits” alongside a senior account manager and event invitations, distinct from the Standard and Premium tiers below it. We have not fetched a page of the firm’s own that sets out withdrawal processing times or limits by tier, so this detail comes from the earlier review rather than from a page we read ourselves.

Customer Support

easyMarkets runs its support through whichever legal entity a visitor’s country selection routes them to, and the contact details change entity by entity. The Seychelles and BVI entity (EF Worldwide Ltd) publishes support@easy-markets.com; the Cyprus entity (Easy Forex Trading Ltd) publishes a separate eusupport@easy-markets.com; the Sydney desk runs its own sydneydealing@easy-markets.com and a local phone line. A client dealing with a problem has to know which entity holds their account before they know which inbox to write to.

How to reach easyMarkets

• Live chat via the website widget, with Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and, for some regions, WeChat and QQ offered alongside it. The firm’s about page adds Viber to that list.
• WhatsApp on +357 99 248 926. The fee page gives set hours for it: Monday to Thursday 08:00 to 21:00, Friday 08:00 to 24:00, both in GMT+2/GMT+3. The same page separately states phone support runs 24/5.
• Phone on +357 25 828 899 for the Cyprus/general line, and a dedicated Sydney dealing desk on 1300 303 908 for Australian clients, with its own email at sydneydealing@easy-markets.com.
• WeChat, listed under the account name “easy forex Yixin (易信) (800128208)”.
• Email: support@easy-markets.com for general customer support, partners@easymarketspartners.com for affiliates and introducing brokers, and complaints@easy-markets.com addressed to the Compliance Officer for complaints specifically.

Registered addresses are on file for each entity: the Seychelles company at CT House, Office No.8F, Providence, Mahe, Seychelles; the BVI company at Trinity Chambers, PO Box 4301, Road Town, Tortola; the South African intermediary at 3rd Floor, 34 Whiteley Blvd, Melrose Arch, Gauteng; the Cyprus entity at P.O. Box 53742, Limassol 3317, with a registered office at Kolonakiou 25, Zavos Kolonakiou CTR Block B, Office 101, Linopetra, 4103 Limassol; and the Australian entity at Suite 703, 65 York Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

What a complaint runs into

The legal documents page states that its RTS 27 Execution Quality reports, Execution Quality Summary Statements and Pillar III Disclosure and Market Discipline Report are “applicable ONLY to clients that are classified as Wholesale or Professional.” A retail client raising a dispute about how an order was filled has no equivalent disclosure from easyMarkets to check it against; that document set exists but is not for them.

The sign-up flow also builds in language that narrows the ground a later complaint can stand on. Before an account opens, the client confirms in the Client Agreement that financial information supplied “is for AML and CTF Compliance purposes only” and will not be used to give personal financial advice, and separately agrees they received… independent financial advice or made… [their] own decision to trade CFDs. A second confirmation, tied to the country-of-residence selection that determines which entity the client is onboarded to, requires the client to confirm the decision was made independently and at… [their] own exclusive initiative and that no solicitation or recommendation has been made by easyMarkets or any other entity within the group. Both are signed regardless of what marketing the client actually saw, and both work against a later mis-selling or unsuitability complaint.

For clients routed to the Seychelles entity, the fee page’s sign-up modal also states plainly that EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of… the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme. A complaint that goes unresolved with the firm has no MiFID II complaints-handling regime or compensation scheme standing behind it for that entity, unlike the Cyprus entity, which the CySEC register confirms as an active investment firm.

Why this review’s support score moved

Our previous review of easyMarkets scored 7.6 out of 10 overall; this one scores 7.1, with support itself sitting at 5.5. That change is this review’s own assessment against current evidence, not a claim that easyMarkets’ support got worse. The evidence pulling the support score down is what sits above: contact points split across five legal entities with no single point of accountability, a complaints inbox that exists but is only findable on one regional legal-documents page, WhatsApp hours that run out well before phone support’s stated 24/5, and Client Agreement language that has clients pre-confirm no advice was given and no solicitation occurred before they can trade at all.

Prohibited Countries

easyMarkets is not one legal entity but four, and which one takes on a new client is decided by the country selected in the sign-up form, before the client sees any account terms. Each entity publishes its own list of countries it will not serve, and the lists do not match each other.

Where EF Worldwide Ltd (Seychelles) will not open an account

The Seychelles-licensed entity’s fee page and legal page both list the same restricted countries: the United States, Israel, Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Japan, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Panama, the Russian Federation, Venezuela, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. That list, on both pages, also includes Seychelles itself. EF Worldwide Ltd is licensed by the Seychelles FSA and registered there under company number 8422794-1, and by its own restricted-region wording it does not open accounts for residents of the country where it is domiciled.

Where EF Worldwide Ltd (British Virgin Islands) will not open an account

The BVI-licensed EF Worldwide Ltd carries almost the same list on its own fee and legal pages: the United States, Israel, Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Panama, the Russian Federation, Seychelles, Venezuela, and the same four Canadian provinces. Japan is absent from that named list. The same legal page then adds a separate line: “This website is not aimed at residents in Japan and India.” Our evidence set also records this BVI entity as the one used for sign-ups from the UAE, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam. We’re reporting both statements as they stand on the firm’s own pages; we cannot reconcile a “not aimed at Japan” line with Japan being one of the sign-up countries routed to this same entity from what we fetched.

Spain, excluded by every entity we checked

Spain is the one restriction that turns up across every geography in this evidence set. The Seychelles entity’s fee page and the Australian-facing homepage both say, in their own words, that the firm currently does not accept residents of Spain because of CNMV intervention measures on the marketing, distribution and sale of CFDs and other leveraged instruments. The EU entity, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, states the same exclusion as contract language rather than a site note: “Easy Forex Trading Limited provides investment and ancillary services to residents of the European Union and the European Economic Area. The Company does not provide its services to residents of Spain. The Company restricts the provision of CFDs to Belgian Clients.” That sentence draws a distinction the others don’t: Spain is excluded outright, while Belgian clients are named separately as restricted specifically from the CFD product line, which is the product this review covers.

The UK entity: closed to new business, not just restricted

The FCA register lists Easy Forex Trading Ltd, the entity trading as easyMarkets in the EU, under firm reference 471938 with the status “No longer authorised.” We found that entry by searching the firm’s name, since the claim on the firm’s own page quotes no FRN. The firm’s own page describes the same entity as “Deemed authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority” and “subject to limited regulation by the FCA and PRA under the Financial Services Contracts Regime,” which it says permits EEA firms to service only pre-existing UK contracts for a limited period. Put those two statements together and a UK resident applying today is not being onboarded under any current FCA permission this entity holds; the regime the firm cites only covers contracts that were already in place before the EEA passporting arrangement wound down.

Where the sign-up flow, not a published list, decides eligibility

Outside these named exclusions, the entity a client ends up with is set by the country picked during sign-up: Easy Forex Trading Ltd for the EU and EEA, Easy Markets Pty Ltd for Australia, or one of the two EF Worldwide Ltd entities for everywhere else the firm accepts business. A client does not see which governing law, which regulator, or which investor-protection regime applies until after making that selection. For anyone routed to the Seychelles entity, the firm’s own sign-up disclosure is explicit about what that means: “EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.”

Conclusion

Our previous review of this broker scored it 7.6/10. This review scores it 7.1/10. That move is ours, not the firm’s: it comes from reassessing the same kind of evidence against a wider set of registers, and the drop sits mostly in regulation, which lands at 5.5/10 here. Fees (9/10) and platform (8.3/10) are the strongest parts of this file; support (5.5/10) and regulation are what hold the overall figure at 7.1.

EF Worldwide Ltd, Easy Forex Trading Ltd, and which one a client gets

“easyMarkets” is a trading name used across at least four separate legal entities, and which one signs up a client depends on the country selected in the sign-up form, not on anything the client chooses directly. We searched the FSA Seychelles register, the BVI FSC register, the FSCA register, the CySEC register, the FCA register, and the ASIC register directly, running a positive control against a known-listed firm on 15 registers first so an empty result would mean absence rather than a broken search. Four of those came back confirmed: the FSA Seychelles register lists EF Worldwide Ltd, trading as easyMarkets SimplyHonest, as a regulated securities dealer (the register does not publish licence numbers, so “SD056” remains the firm’s own figure); the BVI FSC register lists EF Worldwide Ltd as regulated for dealing as agent and as principal, again without a published number for “SIBA/L/20/1135”; the FSCA register shows FSP 54018 held by EF Worldwide (PTY) Ltd, status Authorized; and the CySEC register of investment firms shows an active licence entry for Easy Forex Trading Ltd under 079/07. The ASIC register confirms AFS licence 246566 held by EASYMARKETS PTY LTD, tied to ABN 73 107 184 510.

The fifth result is a contradiction, not a confirmation. The FCA register lists Easy Forex Trading Ltd, firm reference 471938, as No longer authorised. The firm’s own EU-facing page describes this entity as “deemed authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority” and “subject to limited regulation by the FCA and PRA under the Financial Services Contracts Regime”, which remains the firm’s own claim against a register listing the entity as no longer authorised; that regime only lets an EEA firm run off pre-existing UK contracts for a limited period. The register’s own status label is the stronger fact here, and it does not support any current UK permission.

The sign-up flow itself is worth reading closely. Clients routed to EF Worldwide Ltd get a modal stating that the entity “falls outside the UK regulatory framework and is not in scope of (among others) the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. In addition, there is no provision for an investor compensation scheme.” South African clients get a separate disclosure that EF Worldwide (Pty) Ltd acts solely as an intermediary in terms of the FAIS Act… EF Worldwide Ltd falls outside the regulatory framework of South Africa and FSCA’s oversight and as such, FSA’s laws and regulations will apply in relation to your account. Leverage tracks the same split: the CySEC entity caps major forex pairs at 1:30, while the Seychelles/BVI entity advertises up to 1:400 on its own Web/App platform and up to 1:2000 on MT5. A client landing on the Seychelles or BVI entity is trading on higher leverage with no MiFID II cover and no compensation scheme behind it, and finds that out inside the sign-up modal rather than on the homepage.

What Easy Markets charges

The firm’s own account pages, fetched directly rather than summarised, show Commission: 0 and Account Fees: 0 across every listed tier: Standard, VIP, MT4 Standard, MT4 VIP, MT5 Standard and MT5 VIP. Minimum deposits on that same page run from $25 (Standard, MT4 Standard, MT5 Standard) to $2,500 (MT4 VIP, MT5 VIP). Our earlier review also reported no deposit or withdrawal fees charged by easyMarkets itself, with payment-provider or bank fees possible on top; we have not independently confirmed those payment-fee figures against a fetched page, so they are restated here rather than quoted. That combination, zero commission and zero account fees on a fixed-spread CFD structure, is what carries the fees score to 9/10.

Platform and reaching a human

Clients get a genuine choice of venue: easyMarkets’ own Web and App platform, TradingView, MT4 and MT5, all advertised with no added commission. One feature does not travel across all of them: a footnote on the firm’s own page states “Guaranteed Stop Loss with No Slippage is available exclusively on the easyMarkets Web & App platform and TradingView”, so anyone trading on MT4 or MT5 does not get it. Support runs across live chat, WhatsApp (+357 99 248 926, Monday to Thursday 08:00 to 21:00 and Friday 08:00 to 24:00, GMT+2/GMT+3), phone lines split by region including a dedicated Sydney dealing desk, and separate support and complaints email addresses for the Seychelles/BVI side versus the EU side. The channel count is real, but it is scattered across the same multi-entity structure that weighs on regulation, which is reflected in the 5.5/10 support figure.

Reputation signals

The firm’s own Singapore-facing page displays a Trustpilot widget reading “Excellent 4.9 Based on 4.9k reviews” and a “#1 Broker on TradingView” claim, alongside a self-reported list of industry awards going back to 2024. These are the firm’s own presentation of third-party sentiment rather than anything we verified against Trustpilot or TradingView directly, and they sit behind the 7.4/10 reviews figure here.

Easy Markets charges no commission or account fees and offers a real choice of platforms, but routes each client to whichever of its entities their country selects, mostly offshore ones in Seychelles and the BVI, and the FCA register shows Easy Forex Trading Ltd as no longer authorised. TrueBroker scores it 7.1 out of 10.

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