Who Runs This Site
Justin Grossbard and Noam Korbl founded Spread-Bet.co.uk in 2024. The pair had founded the broker comparison network CompareForexBrokers together ten years earlier, and this site is part of that network. Justin has been investing since 1998 and actively trading since 2014; Noam runs operations and the commercial side from Melbourne.
David Levy is Head of Content at CompareForexBrokers and gives every broker review on this site its final editorial sign-off before it goes live. His is the name in the “Fact Checked by” line at the top of each page, and clearing a review is a real gate rather than a byline: nothing goes live until it is done.
Each of the three has a page here setting out what they do, the qualifications they hold and where to check them: Justin Grossbard, Noam Korbl, David Levy.
What We Publish That Is Our Own
Most of what a comparison site prints is a provider’s own marketing, retyped. Three things on this site are not:
- The monthly spread read. We read each provider's own UK site for the same nine currency pairs and record the spread figures it publishes for spread betting, so the comparison is like for like rather than each broker’s best market on its best day. The current set was read on 18 Sep 2026. Our spread betting statistics page publishes it.
- The FCA entity layer. The authorised company and firm reference number behind every brand we cover, because the brand on the website is frequently not the company on the register. Our guide to FCA regulation lists every one of them, including the brands whose register entry returns something other than what you searched for.
- The verified-status rule. Every fact on a review page is either sourced to the provider’s own UK material with a date, or it is absent. There are no dashes and no estimates. A row missing from a table means we could not confirm it, which is a true thing to tell you.
Our methodology sets out how the scoring works, criterion by criterion, and what we do and do not test. Four dated first-party datasets sit behind it: the monthly spread read, the timed execution dataset, the August 2026 app tests, and the service tests covering support, account opening and withdrawals. Each names its method, its dates and the devices or accounts it used.
When We Get It Wrong
Every page carries an Updated date and a What Changed? note beside it. That note is not a changelog of typos: it records what was added, what was corrected and — the part most sites leave out — what was removed. A figure we published and can no longer stand behind comes off the page, and the note says so and dates it.
If you find something on this site that is out of date or wrong, tell us through the contact form. Our terms and conditions cover the rest of our policies.
How We Make Money
Spread Bet UK does not charge you to use it. The site is funded by commercial partnerships with a hand-picked set of brokers, on a retainer basis rather than per referral. That distinction is the important one: we are not paid more when you choose one partner over another, so the ranking has nothing commercial riding on its order.
Ratings are produced independently of those agreements, and the agreements carry no conditions about the outcome. We publish the spread figures behind the cost comparison so the ranking can be checked rather than trusted. Where a link to a provider is a partner link, the page says so above the fold.
Where Some Of This Content Came From
Spread-Bet.co.uk absorbed two financial websites, Findependence Day and Learn Money, both of which had spread betting sections and analysis of their own. That material was migrated here and their URLs now point at the pages that replaced them. We would like to acknowledge the contribution both made.
Every UK spread betting broker we cover has a full write-up in our spread betting broker reviews directory, including the brands with no account left to open.
Find Us Elsewhere
Our video reviews of UK spread betting accounts are on the Spread Bet UK YouTube channel, and several are embedded on the pages they belong to. These are the accounts that are ours:
Spread Bet UK also has an entry in Wikidata, the open structured database, which records the site as a UK spread betting platform comparison site. Our parent network CompareForexBrokers has one too. That network publishes a UK edition of its own at compareforexbrokers.co.uk, covering FCA-regulated forex and CFD brokers; it is the same company as the .com site, not a second one, and the three people above are the same three people there.