Forex trading in Cyprus
Cyprus hosts the largest concentration of EU-passported forex brokers. Forexpia indexes CySEC licence records, entity structures and passporting scope.
- Regulators
- CySEC
- Local currency
- EUR
- Retail leverage
- 1:30 retail (ESMA)
- Main session
- European session (07:00–16:00 GMT)
- Timezone
- Asia/Nicosia
- Coordinates
- 35.186, 33.382
How Forexpia covers Cyprus
A large share of the brokers marketed across Europe operate from Limassol or Nicosia under a CySEC investment firm licence passported into other EEA states. Because a single brand often runs several entities, Forexpia's crawler stores the licence number alongside the operating company so the search result names the entity a client actually contracts with.
CySEC firms follow ESMA-derived rules: 1:30 major-pair leverage, 50% margin close-out, negative-balance protection and Investor Compensation Fund cover up to EUR 20,000 for eligible claims.
Because Cyprus is also the base for many offshore sister brands, our ranking engine penalises pages that blur a CySEC licence with an unrelated offshore entity — a common pattern our duplicate-content checks flag in this region.
Frequently asked questions
Does a CySEC licence cover clients across the EU?
Yes. A CySEC-licensed investment firm can passport its services into other EEA member states, subject to notifying each host regulator.
What compensation applies to CySEC broker clients?
The Investor Compensation Fund covers eligible retail claims up to EUR 20,000 where the firm fails to return client assets.
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