Spread maths beginners skip: a 1.6-pip EUR/USD spread costs ~USD 16 per standard lot, every trade. The same trade on a raw account: ~USD 7-8 all-in. At 20 trades a month the gap compounds fast. Cost comparison across EU brokers: https://fx-brokers.eu/best-forex-brokers-europe
IG moved up two positions in the EU retail rankings this week.
The catalyst is not spreads or a marketing push. It is regulatory certainty. BaFin finalised the permanent domestic incorporation of ESMA's 2018 leverage limits into German supervisory law on 7 June. IG's German entity (IG Europe Gmb…
Spread receipt, EUR/USD raw accounts today: Exness Pro 0.0 pips (no commission) · Pepperstone Razor 0.0 + USD 7 round turn · XM Ultra Low 0.6, no commission. Same trade, three different bills. Full measured leaderboard: https://fx-brokers.eu/tools/spread-leaderboard
FCA fined Frank Breuer £755,000 and issued a lifetime ban earlier this month for advising on defined benefit pension transfers without maintaining the required professional indemnity insurance.
Breuer ran Bluesky Wealth Management (no relation to this platform). From April 2019, the firm lacked…
EUR/USD cost-per-round-turn through a BaFin-regulated entity often looks more expensive on paper than through CySEC passporting - until you account for execution quality. Pepperstone GmbH and IG Europe GmbH structure pricing as tight spread + commission, making the all-in cost explicit. CMC Marke…
Pepperstone vs IG — which is better?
IG offers 17,000+ markets with £250 minimum deposit; Pepperstone offers 1,200+ markets with zero minimum and raw spreads from 0.0 pips. Both regulated by FCA and CySEC (verified 2 May 2026).
If you trade only forex…
CFDs: 74-89% of retail accounts lose money.
ESMA caps EU retail leverage at 30:1 on major FX. A broker offering 1:500 to an EU address is onboarding you offshore — Seychelles entity, no ICF cover, no EU recourse. Check which entity is on your account agreement before depositing. https://fx-brokers.eu/best-forex-brokers-europe
Most broker rankings are editorial opinion dressed as data. The EU Broker Execution Index ranks by MiFID II RTS 28 best-execution reports — the legally mandated slippage statistics every EU broker publishes — plus live EUR/USD spread measurements, server uptime, and regulator licence completeness…
When comparing Exness and Pepperstone for EUR/USD execution costs, the headline spreads are identical: 0.17 pips average during London hours on both platforms' raw spread accounts.
The difference is in the commission structure. Exness charges USD 3.50 per side (USD 7.00 round turn). Pepperstone'…
EUR/USD all-in cost per standard lot (June 2026 check):
Forex.com: $0.00
XTB: $1.00
Interactive Brokers: $1.00
FXCM: $2.00
RoboForex: $4.00
The spread number alone doesn't tell you what you pay. The commission does. We measure both and rank by total r…
CFDs: 74-89% of retail accounts lose money.