The framework
we operate inside.
Licensing, capital, and how your money is held. Written plainly, so you can decide whether we meet the bar you set for a counterparty.
Regulation is not a badge. It is a way of working.
A licence on a footer is easy. What matters is how a firm behaves in the ordinary week — how it holds client money, how it reports, how it answers when a regulator or a client asks a hard question.
We would rather be dull about this. What follows is the framework we operate inside, and the specific protections that apply to every account on our platform.
Segregated
Reconciliation
Tier-one banks
Under supervision
What our licence actually means.
Licensed and supervised
Iron Bridge Markets operates under supervision from a recognised European financial regulator. Our licence covers reception, transmission and execution of client orders across the instruments listed on our platform.
Segregated client funds
Client money sits in segregated accounts at tier-one banks, kept separate from our operating capital. Your balance is your balance, and cannot be used to fund the business under any circumstance.
Capital adequacy
We hold regulatory capital well above the minimum required for our licence category, reviewed and reported to our regulator on a rolling basis.
Independent audit
Our financials are audited annually by an independent firm. Our order handling and best-execution policies are reviewed on the same cadence.
Your balance is your balance.
We hold client money in segregated accounts at tier-one banks, reconciled daily. It is never mixed with the money that runs the business, and it cannot be lent, pledged or otherwise used by Iron Bridge.
Segregated accounts
Client funds sit in named client-money accounts, legally separate from ours.
Tier-one banking
We custody with regulated banks that meet strict capital requirements.
Daily reconciliation
Balances are matched to the cent every business day.
Compensation cover
Eligible balances fall under the applicable investor compensation scheme.
Read the fine print, on purpose.
Every policy that governs your account is public. Below are the documents most clients ask for; the rest are one email away.