Abshire-Smith Journal

• Full listing profile: Abshire-Smith broker profile

Is Abshire-Smith safe?

• Investor protection: UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)
• Regulation: FCA UK
• Publicly traded: no
• Segregated account: yes
• Guaranteed Stop Loss: ...
• Negative Balance Protection: no

Is Abshire-Smith trusted?

• Information transparency: sufficient ★★★
• Customer service: virtually non-existent ★
• Abshire-Smith website: semi-detailed, updated ★★★
• Abshire-Smith popularity (by visitor count): low visits ★★

How Abshire-Smith works

DMA with multiple liquidity providers.

http://www.abshire-smith.com/products/fx-trading/

ABS may execute trades through a variety of Banks, Prime Brokers, Hedge Funds, Market Makers or other clearing houses.

Please note that ABS does not trade outside of a regulated market or Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) or deal in any OTC transaction in the EEA.

ABS does not trade as principal.

http://www.abshire-smith.com/best-execution/

Counterparties

Abshire-Smith Global Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a matched principle. We rigorously vet all of our counterparties, to clear 100% of our trades through UK FCA regulated counterparties. Operating an agency only business model means that Abshire-Smith is unable to hold proprietary positions, or take exposure to the markets.

We act as an intermediary between our clients through our 3 trading platforms, FIX/API connections and platform bridges, to liquidity providers, aggregators and major exchanges. (This means that we operate an STP/ECN/DMA trading model and do not run a “B Book” or make a market, to remove the conflict of interest between ourselves and our clients.

http://www.abshire-smith.com/why-abshire/about-us/

http://www.abshire-smith.com/client-agreement/

http://www.abshire-smith.com/vertexfx10/faqs/

FAQ: Are you a market maker? No, Abshire-Smith is not a market maker.

Abshire-Smith Global Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a matched principle. Operating an agency only business model means that Abshire-Smith is unable to hold proprietary positions, or take exposure to the markets.

This means that we operate an STP trading model and do not run a “B Book” or make a market, to remove the conflict of interest between ourselves and our clients. We rigorously vet all of our counterparties, to clear 100% of our trades through UK FCA regulated counterparties.

How does Abshire-Smith make money?

Abshire-Smith is remunerated from executing trades by marking-up (widening) the spread received from liquidity providers, compensation for order flow and where applicable charging commissions.

Abshire-Smith is an appointed liquidity provider (by the developers Hybrid Solutions) for the award winning VertexFX 10 platform.

http://www.abshire-smith.com/platforms/vertex-bridge/