Finansinspektionen
Finansinspektionen · Sweden · Established 1991
Finansinspektionen (Finansinspektionen) is the financial regulator of Sweden, established 1991. It caps retail leverage at 1:30, requires negative balance protection and segregated client funds, and compensates clients up to SEK 1,050,000 if a firm fails.
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What this licence gets you
The rules a firm has to follow to keep this licence. A dash means we hold no answer on file, which is not the same as a no.
- Maximum leverage, retail
- 1:30
- Maximum leverage, professional
- 1:500
- Compensation if the firm fails
- SEK 1,050,000
- Negative balance protection
- Required
- Client funds held separately
- Required
- Hedging
- Permitted
- FIFO order closing
- Not mandatory
- Supervision covers
- Banks, investment firms, insurance, funds, payment services, forex/CFD brokers
- Body type
- Government agency
About Finansinspektionen
Finansinspektionen (FI) is Sweden's financial supervisory authority, ensuring stability, efficiency, and consumer protection in banking, insurance, securities, and forex/CFD markets. It enforces EU regulations (MiFID II, EMIR) and issues warnings against unauthorized firms. FI promotes sustainable finance and innovation while cooperating with ESMA and Nordic-Baltic regulators.
No listed broker holds a Finansinspektionen licence
None of the brokers in our database holds an active licence from this authority. That is a statement about our listings, not about the regulator.