CMC Markets review

Is CMC Markets regulated where you live?

CMC Markets is regulated in every country it serves here. The company that opens your account, and its regulator, decide your leverage and protections, and where you live usually determines which CMC Markets company takes you on. Someone in Spain usually gets CMC Markets Germany GmbH, regulated by BaFin. Someone in Thailand usually gets the global company, CMC Markets Bermuda Ltd, licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority. That company offers more leverage, up to 200:1 on most major forex pairs.

The group also holds licences from the FCA, BaFin and ASIC, even if the global company takes you on. Those regulators check who owns and runs the group. Those regulators hold the group’s companies in their countries to their rules on capital and client money. Those rules protect only those companies’ clients. CMC Markets is listed on the London Stock Exchange, so its audited accounts cover the whole group, the global company included. The last column gives what the global company’s own terms say about your country.

These figures were checked between 4 October 2026 and 17 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

The German company serves clients in France, Italy and Portugal directly, and its sites there name no local branch (French site, Italian site, sign-up). It also has a registered branch of its own in Spain, authorised by the CNMV under number 134 (Spanish site), and another in Poland. Only the United States and Belgium are named in the Bermuda company’s terms as excluded. Nowhere do those terms mention the 12 countries it serves here.

Forex basket at the global company

Forex pairs at the Bermuda company mostly receive its full advertised leverage. USD/CHF gets half of that full amount, and EUR/JPY lands somewhere between the two. Each limit comes from the first margin tier. The rate climbs across 3 or 4 tiers as a trade expands, so a big trade ends up with less leverage than shown. The company doesn’t publish any of the other columns, from spread and lot limits to overnight financing.

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These figures were checked on 27 September 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Crypto basket at the global company

Every crypto coin here carries the same leverage limit at the Bermuda company and is priced in US dollars. For some coins, the first tier ends at a very small trade size and the margin rate increases after that point.

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These figures were checked on 27 September 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Account maximum against instrument ceilings

The Bermuda company sets the same account maximum for every basket. No instrument ceilings are published to set against it here, so you can compare instruments with the forex and crypto tables above. Gold sits at the full maximum in the company’s margin data.

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These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

The UK, Australian and Bermuda companies apply margin tiers to each position. The German company also uses tiers, though it doesn’t publish them. All four companies state they provide 3 business days’ notice of a margin increase where they can. The Bermuda company’s terms allow it to act with less notice, or even none, if there is a valid reason.

Costs it publishes

CMC Markets publishes its inactivity fee as a figure, ten pounds a month, charged after an account sits unused for a year. It also names the benchmark rate that its overnight charge is based on.

These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Funding

Funding at the Bermuda company works by card, bank transfer, Skrill, Neteller and crypto. Crypto deposits are USDT or USDC through Binance Pay. The company says it charges no fee to deposit or withdraw, though your card issuer or payment provider may charge a fee (client disclosures, TradingView page). The UK and Australian companies list their own methods, and you’ll find them alongside other brokers’ on the UK and Australian comparison pages. Because the broker can change these terms and those in the by-country table below at its own discretion, always double-check them on the broker’s own website before you deposit.

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These figures were checked between 29 September 2026 and 11 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Funding, by country

Funding works differently for each company. Cards are accepted in every country here. Where the Bermuda company opens your account you can also pay by bank transfer, Skrill or Neteller, and only there are crypto deposits accepted. The UK company doesn’t take crypto, and the German and Australian companies don’t say whether they do. PromptPay and Thai online banking aren’t available to Thai clients. Local rails are the ones the payment rails page shows for each country.

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These figures were checked between 27 September 2026 and 16 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

Platforms and tools

Platforms differ between companies. The Australian site lists MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and TradingView, but the UK site only mentions MetaTrader 4 and TradingView, with no reference to MetaTrader 5. Hosted servers and Autochartist are Australian only.

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These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

What you can trade

CMC Markets’ UK pages list a total of 21,000 instruments, with more than 300 forex pairs among them (UK forex page). The global home page states more than 21,000 instruments in its text, but shows 12,000 in a figures strip (global home page). The UK forex page refers to 12,000 as the number of other instruments excluding forex pairs (UK forex page). The UK company doesn’t offer crypto, and no page read provides a crypto count.

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These figures come straight from each broker’s published information, with no check date noted. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.

More markets don’t always mean a better broker for you. Leverage, overnight financing, execution and costs often affect a trade more (what matters besides the market count).

Every company in the group

The Bermuda company’s terms say client money is segregated from the firm’s own funds, but it may be held outside Bermuda and may be pooled with other clients’ money. Two UK companies serve as its paying agents: CMC Markets UK plc and CMC Markets Services Limited (global site). CMC does not name a regulator for CMC Markets Services Limited.

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These figures were checked between 4 October 2026 and 17 October 2026. Confirm them with the broker before you open an account.