About Owen Fitzgerald
Owen checks every claim we make about regulation. Before a broker appears anywhere on this site he confirms the firm reference number on the Financial Services Register, records the permissions the entity actually holds, and notes whether the UK entity or an offshore group company is the one taking the client's money.
He also maintains the safety pages: what FSCS cover does and does not do, how client money segregation works in practice, why negative balance protection matters after a gap, and what happens to open positions if a firm fails.
Owen has a compliance background in retail financial services and treats every unverified marketing claim as false until documentation says otherwise.