Markets.com withdrew from UK retail service. Its operator says on its own UK page that it no longer offers services to retail clients, and no longer offers services under the Markets.com brand at all. Checked on 25 Aug 2026, there is no UK spread betting account to open and no live pricing to compare.
UK firm behind the brand: Finalto Financial Services Limited (FRN 481853)
Updated 5 Sep 2026. The page gains two sentences about a live page the brand still runs. markets.com publishes a spread betting page in English addressed to UK traders whose footer names a Cyprus company regulated by CySEC as the operator of that site, not the FCA-authorised firm whose notice this page quotes. A CySEC licence is not FCA authorisation and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme does not reach it, and the page now says so with the date the page was read. Earlier: Rebuilt on 26 Aug 2026. The page had been written as a review of a product that has been withdrawn, including pricing for it. It now states the withdrawal first, quotes the operator’s own notice, and carries the contact route that notice gives to anyone still owed a balance — which is the only part of this brand a UK reader can still act on. All pricing for the account has been removed.
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Two Things Were Withdrawn, Not One
The notice withdraws retail clients, and the Markets.com brand itself. Those are two facts rather than one. The authorised company continued to exist after it stopped serving retail clients, and it stopped using this brand name as well. A reader who has seen the name recently somewhere else is not confused: the entity outlived the brand.
On 5 Sep 2026 the brand still publishes a spread betting page in English addressed to UK traders at markets.com/en/spread-betting/, and the footer of that page names Safecap Investments Limited as the operator of the site, regulated in Cyprus by CySEC rather than by the FCA. A CySEC licence is not FCA authorisation, and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme covers clients of FCA-authorised firms, so a balance held with Safecap Investments Limited carries no FSCS protection.
What follows for a UK spread bettor is the same either way. There is no retail account here to open, so there is no cost to compare, no platform to try and no minimum stake to look up.
Searches for this brand’s spreads still arrive on this page every month. They used to find a table of them. A price for an account nobody can open is not information, and the table has gone.
What To Do If You Still Hold A Balance
The company behind the brand is Finalto Financial Services Limited (FRN 481853), and it names itself in the notice. That matters here because a firm that is still authorised is a firm you can still pursue.
The notice tells a client with an unclaimed balance to contact the firm to submit a withdrawal request. These are the addresses it gives:
support@markets.com
compliance@finalto.com
marketsuk@finalto.com
Write to the firm directly rather than through a comparison site, and keep what you send. We have no visibility of any individual account and no route into one.
Where a firm does not respond, the Financial Ombudsman Service takes complaints about FCA-authorised firms and its decisions bind them. Our guide to spread betting regulation in the UK sets out that route and what client money segregation means when a provider stops serving a market.
What Other Review Sites Say About Markets.com
These are Markets.com’s ratings on the platforms below, each read on the date shown and stated in that platform’s own scale. They are other people’s ratings, gathered on those sites’ own terms, and we publish them so you can weigh them against ours.
Markets.com’s Trustpilot profile, captured 3 Sep 2026. We recapture these monthly, so the figure in the table is the one the platform showed on that date rather than a number typed in once and left to age.Markets.com’s Apple App Store listing, captured 3 Sep 2026. We recapture these monthly, so the figure in the table is the one the platform showed on that date rather than a number typed in once and left to age.Markets.com’s Google Play listing, captured 3 Sep 2026. We recapture these monthly, so the figure in the table is the one the platform showed on that date rather than a number typed in once and left to age.
Our own score is set on the six criteria we publish and is not influenced by any third-party rating. A high rating on a review platform and a low mark here can both be true of the same account, because they measure different things.
Where To Spread Bet Instead Of Markets.com
These are the three highest-scoring accounts in our ranking that you can open today, in score order. The order is the ranking’s own and does not change from page to page. Our scores are set on the criteria we publish and are never influenced by what a broker pays us. The list below is therefore the same list you will find on our spread betting platforms we rank.
1. Pepperstone - Review score 98/100
Nine-pair average: 1.34 points, EUR/USD at 0.6 points
76.6% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider.
Your capital is at risk. This page is not financial or tax advice.
How We Picked Those Three
They are the top three of the fourteen accounts in our ranking, in score order, with nothing else applied. Each is FCA-authorised and taking UK retail clients today. Our scores are set on criteria we publish and are never influenced by what a broker pays us.
Each carries the spread average we harvest from that broker’s own site every month, the one cost figure every provider states on the same basis. Our spread betting broker reviews directory lists every brand we have assessed, withdrawn ones included, and we rank the FCA-regulated spread betting brokers whose accounts are open against each other.
Between 61% and 76.6% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with the providers we compare.
Spread betting is leveraged and losses can exceed the amount you set out to risk on a bet. This page is not financial or tax advice.
Markets.com Spread Betting: FAQs
Can I open a Markets.com spread betting account in the UK?
No. The operator states on its own UK page that it no longer offers services to retail clients and no longer offers services under the Markets.com brand. There is no application route and no UK product page behind the name.
What are Markets.com spreads on UK markets?
There are none to quote. A withdrawn product has no live pricing, and any figure published for it now describes an account nobody can open. The spread averages we publish come from each broker’s own pricing page and are harvested monthly, which is only possible while the broker still has one.
I still have a balance with Markets.com. What do I do?
The operator’s UK notice gives contact addresses for submitting a withdrawal request against an unclaimed balance, and they are listed on this page. Approach the firm directly rather than through a comparison site. If you get no response, the Financial Ombudsman Service takes complaints about FCA-authorised firms.
Justin Grossbard co-founded Spread-Bet.co.uk with Noam Korbl in 2024, and co-founded the broker comparison network CompareForexBrokers with him in 2014. He has been investing since 1998 and actively trading since 2014, and has written on forex and CFD trading for Kiplinger, Entrepreneur, Finance Magnates and MoneyShow since 2019.
