Elena Kovač is a former compliance officer who now leads regulation coverage at InvestingChef. She checks every licence claim a broker makes against the source itself, looking up firm reference numbers on the FCA, CySEC and ASIC public registers before a single word is published. Her rule is simple: a regulation badge only earns its place on this site once it has been confirmed on the regulator's own record, never on the broker's own say-so.
Elena cross-references each broker's stated entity name and licence number against live regulator databases, records the exact register entry, and flags any mismatch between the trading brand and the licensed firm. She tracks negative-balance protection, client-money segregation and compensation-scheme coverage per jurisdiction, so readers see which protections actually apply to them rather than a generic marketing claim.