9 years in financial services regulation and compliance. Sarah spent 4 years within the FCA's authorisation division reviewing broker applications and monitoring ongoing licence conditions. She then left to work as an independent compliance consultant, advising firms seeking FCA, CySEC and ASIC licences. She joined BrokerForexReviews to bring primary-source regulatory expertise directly to broker assessments — verifying licences from the same registers she worked with at the FCA.
Sarah verifies every broker licence directly in the official public registers of the FCA, CySEC, ASIC and 12 other regulators. She cross-references the legal entity name, licence number and scope of permitted activities against what the broker claims on its website. She also checks for regulatory warnings, licence restrictions, past enforcement actions and any consumer alerts issued by the relevant authority. This verification step is completed before any review page is published or updated.