AC Prime Regulation & Safety — Entity-Sensitive Read
🟢 Tier 1 RegulatedTrust stack
Trust metadata for AC Prime regulation coverage
This subpage inherits the main AC Prime review standards, disclosure links, and methodology references.
The useful regulation question is not “is AC Prime regulated?”
The useful question is which legal entity will actually hold your account. AC Prime may show multiple regulators at brand level, but protections, leverage caps, and complaint routes can change once you land in a specific entity.
Regulator checker for AC Prime
Small, evidence-led tools for fees, regulation, and platform fit. Unknown stays unknown.
AC Prime shows 1 regulator in the structured dataset, with 1 top-tier and 0 offshore licences.
- • Confirm the exact legal entity in the signup flow before funding.
- • Use the regulator register link below instead of relying on a homepage badge.
- • Match the protections you care about — compensation, segregation, leverage limits — to the entity you will actually onboard with.
Do not stop at the badge. Confirm the legal entity, then check the regulator register, compensation route, and leverage cap tied to that entity.
Spread headlines are not the whole bill. Funding currency, withdrawal rules, inactivity fees, and account-type selection can matter more than 0.2 pips.
A broker can be cheap and still be a bad outcome if leverage or product complexity pushes you into oversized risk.
Platform fit is workflow fit. Order entry, automation, charting, and mobile habits matter more than whether the interface looks modern.
Structured regulator coverage
| Regulator | Country | Tier | Registry |
|---|---|---|---|
| CySEC — Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission | Cyprus | Tier 1 | Open register → |
Protections the repo supports
- Negative balance protection is explicitly stated in the repo review.
- Segregated client funds is explicitly stated in the repo review.
- ICF coverage up to €20,000 for eligible clients under the Cyprus entity.
Entity nuance
AC Prime shows 1 regulator in the shared broker dataset. Treat that as a brand-level trust signal, not proof of the exact legal entity you will onboard with.
AC Prime looks strong on top-tier regulation, but even cleaner brands can route clients through different entities by country. Always confirm the legal entity in the signup flow.
What we still do not model cleanly
The repo does not yet maintain a broker-by-broker enforcement-history dataset or a complete legal-entity table with licence numbers for every brand. So this page helps you verify the right things quickly, but it should not be read as a substitute for opening the relevant register entry yourself.
Bottom line
AC Prime shows 1 regulator in the structured dataset, with 1 top-tier and 0 offshore licences. If the broker can route clients through both stronger and lighter jurisdictions, treat the stronger badge as a possibility, not an automatic outcome.
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Risk & regulation snapshot for AC Prime
Regulation
Third-partyCySEC
Leverage / exposure
Broker-stated1:30 (tighter leverage ceiling)
Trust read
VerifiedTier 1 trust profile
Regulation status
Third-partyCySEC gives this broker a cleaner top-tier regulation read than the average CFD brand.
Entity nuance
Third-partyAC Prime should be treated as a multi-entity broker until the exact onboarding entity is confirmed.
Investor protection
UnknownTop-tier regulation helps on paper, but the canonical dataset still does not lock the exact compensation scheme or client-money safeguards for every onboarding entity.
Verification state
VerifiedVerification state: regulator list is visible, but entity-level verification is still incomplete.
High-risk warning
Broker-statedThe leverage ceiling is comparatively tighter, but CFDs and leveraged forex still carry real loss risk.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Limassol, Cyprus
- Regulation
- CySEC
- Min Deposit
- $500
- Max Leverage
- 1:30
- Spreads From
- 1.0 pips
- Platforms
- MT4, MT5
- Support
- Email, Phone