Structured comparison · last re-checked 2026-09
Dukascopy Bank (institutional / white-label liquidity) vs. Evaluate Dukascopy's liquidity against single prime brokers and multi-PoP setups.
Dukascopy Bank, founded in 2004, is a FINMA-regulated Swiss bank providing institutional liquidity solutions. Its white-label program targets banks and financial institutions, requiring a minimum turnover of USD 2 billion in two years. While it claims to be one of the world's largest liquidity aggregators, the absence of published LP count and limited asset classes may warrant further scrutiny.
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Licence, read on the register
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.
| Regulator | Licence number | Jurisdiction | Tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FINMA | not verified | Switzerland | tier-1 | https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/about/company |
Source: www.dukascopy.comswiss/english/ · open source ↗
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The comparison ledger
Where the model wins, where it merely competes, and which claims a counterparty can actually test.
Wins where
- Banks seeking white-label solutions
- Regulated brokers needing FX liquidity
Merely competes where
- Single prime brokers
- Multi-PoP liquidity providers
- Direct venue memberships
Testable claims
- Founded on 2 November 2004 in Geneva by Andre and Veronika Duka, who still own 99% of the company (own company page)
- Regulated by FINMA both as a bank and as a securities firm; statutory auditor KPMG (own pages)
- Under the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act Dukascopy Bank is qualified as a bilateral Organised Trading Facility (OTF) (own transparency page)
- White Label programme targets banks and regulated financial institutions; spot margin trading in G10 pairs incl. spot gold; minimum turnover requirement of USD 2 billion within the first two years
Claims we cannot verify from outside
- SWFX 'connected through FIX API to over 20 major banks' — the LP count is the firm's own measurement
- 'One of the world's largest liquidity aggregators' is the firm's own characterisation
- One transparent price feed / true historical tick data claims are the firm's own service descriptions
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Perimeter and coverage
| Asset classes | Venues | Connectivity | Clients accepted | Explicitly refused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FX spot (G10 + spot gold), Bullion, CFDs, Binaries, Crypto exchange & fiduciary custody (FINMA-authorised) | FIX API, JForex, MT4/MT5 bridge, Web/Java platforms | Banks and regulated financial institutions (white label), Brokerage firms, Hedge funds and other institutions, Corporate/institutional accounts: regulated brokers, e-money companies, other PSPs |