With a history dating back to 1998, the Alpari companies (“Alpari”) are among the world’s fastest growing providers of online foreign exchange (“FX”, “Forex”) trading services. The companies provide cutting edge technology, low-cost trading, comprehensive market research tools, advanced educational programmes and world-class customer service.
The group of Alpari companies has offices in over 20 countries. Locations include London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Moscow, Mumbai and Frankfurt. Combined, the companies look after over 170,000 active trading accounts, generating monthly trading volumes in excess of USD210 billion and employ over 630 people worldwide.*
The mission of the Alpari companies is to deliver professional trading services to all clients, both retail and institutional. Our vision is to be recognised as the world’s premier broker.
MT4 is one of the most popular Forex trading platforms in the world and the Alpari companies are among the largest MT4 brokers. The platform is recognised for its advanced charting package and user-friendly interface. MT4 features include:
MT4 was developed by MetaQuotes Software Corp. in 2000 and, from the early days, enhanced by the Alpari companies with a number of proprietary plug-ins and add-ons. Alpari’s MT4 offers, for example, a flexible multi-tier commission structure, competitive spreads and deep liquidity.
The Alpari companies provide clients with free access to a wide range of research tools, including Alpari Squawk for live audio market commentary, technical analysis reports from Trading Central, chart-pattern recognition tool Autochartist and Alpari AM, a tool that helps traders to technically identify trading opportunities. By offering these institutional-level educational and market analysis tools, the Alpari companies are able to ensure their clients can make informed and responsible trading decisions.
Alpari (UK) Limited is an award-winning Forex, spread betting, precious metals and Contracts for Difference ("CFDs") broker headquartered in the heart of the City of London and with subsidiaries in Germany, Japan and India as well as a Representative Office in China.
Alpari (UK) has implemented a prime brokerage model in order to deliver efficient services to all its clients. With a combination of straight-through processing (STP)**, non-dealing desk (NDD) execution** and stable high quality price feeds from the largest financial institutions, Alpari (UK) is able to offer low-cost execution to clients, usually reserved only for banks and corporations.
As an FSA-regulated broker, Alpari (UK) must segregate all retail client funds in a special bank account and keep them separate from Alpari (UK) company funds (see Safety of Client Funds). Segregation ensures that client funds will not be used to pay back creditors in the unlikely event of Alpari (UK)’s default or insolvency.
Alpari (Deutschland) GmbH, based in Frankfurt, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alpari (UK). Alpari (Deutschland) provides investment services to retail and institutional investors in the German-speaking region as a tied agent of Falcon Asset Management GmbH, Königsallee 50, 40212 Düsseldorf, BaFin registration number 117767, according to § 2 Abs. 10 KWG.
Alpari Financial Services (India) Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of Alpari (UK). The company was formed under the Indian Companies Act 1956 and incorporated in 2008. Providing currency trading services to Indian institutional and retail customers, Alpari Financial Services (India) is a member of the NSE (National Stock Exchange of India), MCX-SX (MCX Stock Exchange) and USE (United Stock Exchange).
Alpari Japan K.K., based in Tokyo, was registered in April 2011 as a subsidiary of Alpari (UK). The company will provide online trading services to the mature Japanese Forex market. CFDs and precious metals will also be offered. Alpari Japan is authorised and regulated by the Kanto Local Finance Bureau, licence ID: KLFB#2408, under the supervision of the Financial Services Agency in Japan, and also a member of the Financial Futures Association of Japan, member ID: FFAJ#1587.
The Alpari (UK) Limited Shanghai Representative Office, opened in 2008, represents Alpari (UK) across China. Chinese clients can trade Forex, CFDs and precious metals through Alpari (UK). The Representative Office is registered under the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce.
Alpari (US), LLC is one of the leading providers of online Forex, commodity futures, options and precious metals trading services. The company is based on Wall Street, in the financial district of New York City, where it is dually registered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer and has been a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) since 2007, member ID: 0379678.
Alpari ME DMCC is licensed by the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, Dubai. The company is a broker member of the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange
Alpari (Russia), established in 1998, is a leading Forex, CFD and precious metals broker based in Moscow and regulated by the Financial Regulation Agency in Russia.
Alpari Financial Services is based in Cyprus, CySec licence number 129/10.
* May 2011
**Availability of STP and NDD depends on account type
