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Moneta Markets

Moneta Markets launched in mid-2020 inside Vantage International Group and has been independent since September 2022. It runs MetaTrader 4 and 5 alongside its own AppTrader, lists over a thousand instruments including 845+ stock CFDs and 43 crypto CFDs, and opens accounts from $50. It holds a genuine FCA authorisation with FSCS cover for UK clients — acquired in 2025 with the VIBHS Financial entity rather than granted new — and an ASIC licence from 2022. Everyone else signs with the Seychelles and St Lucia company, where there is no compensation scheme. The cashback promotion is unusually fair for the sector; the index CFD pricing is not.

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Provider score
74
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Data confidence
Medium
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Last fully verified
Aug 31, 2026
last checked Aug 31, 2026
Commercial relationship
None
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Legal entities

Regulation is per entity, not per brand

Which entity you are onboarded to decides your regulator, protections and available leverage.

Moneta Markets South Africa (Pty) Ltd
RegulatorFSCA (tier2)
Licence numberFSP 47490
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionSouth Africa
Investor protectionFSP conduct regime; no compensation fund
AcceptsSouth Africa
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Moneta Markets Ltd
RegulatorFSA Seychelles (offshore)
Licence numberSD144 (St Lucia IBC 2023-00068)
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionSeychelles
Investor protectionNone. No compensation scheme applies to this entity.
AcceptsBangladesh, South Africa
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Moneta Markets Pty Ltd
RegulatorASIC (tier1)
Licence numberAFSL (granted 03/08/2022)
Licence statusClaimed, not checked
JurisdictionAustralia
Investor protectionNo statutory compensation scheme; segregated client money
AcceptsAustralia
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Moneta Markets Capital Ltd
RegulatorFCA (tier1)
Licence numberFRN 613381
Licence statusVerified on register
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Investor protection£85,000 FSCS
AcceptsUnited Kingdom
RestrictedUnited States, Canada
Conditions

Trading conditions

Spreads are only comparable when sampled on the same day at the same account tier.

Account tier shownDirect STP

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Typical EUR/USD spread1.2 pips

no sample date on file

Commission$0 disclosed

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Minimum deposit$50

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Swap-free availableYes

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Max leverage1:1000 (FX majors, offshore entity) / 1:500 index futures / 1:33 US stocks / 1:30 (FCA and ASIC retail caps)

Varies by entity and client jurisdiction.

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Conditions

Markets & access

PlatformsMT4, MT5, AppTrader, ZuluTrade

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Instrumentsforex, indices, commodities, metals, crypto, stocks, etfs, bonds

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Payment methodscard, bank wire, crypto, skrill, local bank

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Trading restrictionsCommission figures on the ECN tiers are quoted per lot per side — the round-turn cost stored here is double the advertised number. Ultra ECN, Cent, PAMM and MAM accounts are excluded from the cashback promotion. Cashback requires trades to stay open at least 10 minutes. Educational material is gated behind a $500 account balance and demo accounts expire after 30 days. ProTrader 2.0 was retired in December 2025.

Source: FCA register / change-of-control — Moneta Markets Capital Ltd (FRN 613381) · last checked Aug 31, 2026 · confidence Medium

Offers

Current & past offers

Expired offers stay listed so the history is not quietly rewritten — their codes are disabled.

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Free VPS hosting
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50% up to $1,000
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50% cashback, withdrawable
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No expiry on file
Score breakdown

How this score was built

Each dimension is scored 0–100 with a written rationale and its own weight. No single unexplained star.

Commercial deals excluded
20%Regulatory & entity clarity78

Stronger on paper than most brokers of this size: a live FCA authorisation carrying FSCS cover to £85,000, plus an ASIC licence granted in August 2022. Two things hold the score back. The FCA permission was acquired rather than earned — it is the 2014 VIBHS Financial licence, renamed after the regulator approved a change of control in August 2025 — and clients outside the UK and Australia still contract with the Seychelles/St Lucia company, which has no compensation scheme. The entity base has also moved once already, from St Vincent to Seychelles.

15%Cost transparency72

Account tiers are published cleanly and commission is quoted per lot per side without ambiguity, which is better than most. Marked down because the headline pricing is all FX-centric: index CFDs run around 3.0 pips on the S&P against roughly 0.2 at the cheapest competitors, and that gap is not surfaced anywhere a prospective client would see it. The genuinely cheap tier needs $20,000.

15%Funding & withdrawal clarity84

No deposit or transfer fees, an unusually wide payment set including crypto and regional methods, and nine base currencies. No dominant pattern of withdrawal complaints surfaced in the review platforms checked, which separates this record from FXGT.

12%Platform / execution disclosure76

MetaTrader 4 and 5 plus an in-house AppTrader, CopyTrader and a ZuluTrade integration — good coverage. Discounted because ProTrader 2.0, the proprietary web platform, was retired in December 2025. Withdrawing a platform clients had built workflows on is a continuity cost, and no comparable execution-quality statistics are published.

12%Country eligibility accuracy68

The restricted-country list is not published anywhere public in a form that can be checked, and as with the other brokers on this site the mapping from residence to signing entity — which decides whether FSCS applies to you or nothing does — is not surfaced before deposit.

12%Terms / promotion fairness80

The cashback promotion is materially fairer than the industry norm: it pays per lot traded and converts to real withdrawable equity rather than locked credit. The parallel deposit bonus is the usual non-withdrawable credit that shrinks when you withdraw. Gating educational material behind a $500 account balance is a small mark against.

8%Operational history62

Launched mid-2020 inside Vantage International Group and only independent since September 2022. Roughly six years as a brand and four standing on its own is a short record, and the recent FCA entity acquisition means the UK-facing operation has been under this ownership for about a year.

6%User-feedback quality60

Thin rather than negative. No large public review corpus was found in either direction, so there is little to corroborate or contradict the operator claims of 70,000+ clients. Scored low on evidence available, not on evidence of problems.

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Editorial assessment
Moneta Markets review: a bought FCA licence and an honest cashback dealuse with caution · verified Aug 31, 2026

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Verification statusRecently checked
Data confidenceMedium
Last checkedAug 31, 2026
Last fully verifiedAug 31, 2026
Reviewed byNot recorded
Attached sources

Editor note: The FCA entity and its change-of-control history are confirmed from the register and contemporaneous trade press. Account tiers, leverage bands and instrument counts are from secondary reviews — monetamarkets.com returns 403 to automated capture, so they need a manual screenshot before this moves to verified. Unresolved: the FSC Mauritius licence (GB24203391) is cited by one source only, and the deposit-bonus credit ceiling is reported as both $10,000 and $20,000.