VENUE FILE · filed 2026-09 · last re-checked 2026-09
Finalto — the liquidity layer, one venue at a time
Finalto Financial Services Limited · London, GB · evidence score 91/100
Licence, read on the register
| Regulator | Licence number | Jurisdiction | Tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Conduct Authority (UK) | 481853 · authorised · checked 2026-09 | GB | tier-1 | open source ↗ |
Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-2 means real supervision and client-money segregation, without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.
The claims ledger
Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.
- 1testable claims
- 1venue-measured claims
- not examinednamed data centres
- Three data centres: New York, London and Singapore (own liquidity page)
Claims we cannot verify from outside
- "Direct Tier-1 bank connectivity" and "ultra-low latency" — own liquidity-page marketing without disclosed metrics
Perimeter and coverage
| Asset classes | Venues | Connectivity | Clients accepted | Explicitly refused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FX: yes, Metals: yes, Indices: yes, Commodities: yes, Crypto: yes | not examined | FIX API: yes, MetaTrader 4 bridge: yes, MetaTrader 5 bridge: yes, rest_api: yes, third_party_api_bridge: yes, clearvision: yes, colocation_ld4_ny4_sg3: yes | regulated_broker, financial_institution, family_office, hedge_fund, professional_trader, prop_trading_house, asset_manager | not examined |
A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to assess than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as disclosure, not as a defect.
What the desk watches next
The follow-up plan attached to this file — each item re-checked on a future pass, dated and kept falsifiable.
- Verification of self-measured latency claims