UK Compliance
UK regulatory posture for a serious market-infrastructure product
ZeroTrade UK is framed as software and operator infrastructure, not as an FCA-authorised broker, adviser, custodian, or investment manager. This page explains the customer-facing guardrails.
Risk Warning
Trading involves risk and can result in losses. ZeroTrade does not guarantee profit, does not remove market risk, and does not replace professional financial, tax, legal, or compliance advice. AI, quant, and quantum outputs are advisory and must not bypass deterministic risk controls.
Regulatory Status
What ZeroTrade should and should not claim
No false FCA authorisation claim
ZeroTrade must not describe itself as FCA authorised, FCA regulated, or FCA endorsed unless a real authorisation or registration exists and the correct firm reference can be checked on the FCA register.
Software and infrastructure first
ZeroTrade is positioned as trading software, monitoring infrastructure, replay, paper-mode tooling, and operator control. It is not presented as a broker, custodian, investment adviser, portfolio manager, payment institution, or exchange.
Use regulated providers where required
Where a customer's activity involves a regulated broker, trading venue, payment provider, or data provider, the customer should verify that provider directly with the FCA register or Firm Checker before relying on it.
UK edition avoids crypto promotion
ZeroTrade UK is framed around gold, indices, FX, shares, and broker-supported workflows. Crypto-specific promotion belongs outside the UK edition unless the financial-promotion route is reviewed, approved, or exempt.
Financial Promotions
How public marketing stays safer for UK customers
Fair, clear, and not misleading
Public pages, emails, social posts, screenshots, and demos should explain both benefits and risk. Avoid pressure language, profit certainty, hidden assumptions, or tiny-print risk warnings.
No guaranteed-profit language
Do not claim fixed win rates, guaranteed gains, passive income, or risk-free automation. Backtests and replay examples must stay labelled as historical or simulated and not a live promise.
No personalised investment advice
Oracle, AI, quant, and quantum outputs are advisory explanations and classifications. The product should not make personal recommendations based on a customer's circumstances.
Promotion approval before high-risk claims
If a communication becomes an invitation or inducement to invest, it may need review by an FCA-authorised approver or another lawful route before being communicated to UK consumers.
Customer Risk
Plain risk points that should stay visible
Company Operations
UK business controls that sit around the product
Companies House trading disclosures
If ZeroTrade is sold through a UK limited company, the website should display the registered company name, company number, registered office jurisdiction/address, and contact route once those details are finalised.
ICO and privacy readiness
The platform stores emails, login sessions, order data, support data, and encrypted provider metadata. The business should assess ICO registration, publish a privacy notice, and keep a data-retention policy.
Consumer checkout clarity
Buy pages should clearly explain what is sold, the price, the delivery path, refund/cancellation posture, and the difference between hosted access and a self-hosted node license.
Security and key handling
Provider keys must stay encrypted, never logged, never placed in prompts, and never shown back in plain text. UK customers should use read-only or paper credentials first where possible.
Owner Checklist
Before scaling paid traffic or public claims
Official Resources
Regulatory sources used for this posture
This page is a product-control summary, not legal advice. It should still be reviewed by a UK-qualified compliance professional before larger paid campaigns or regulated-market expansion.
FCA financial promotions
FCA consumer guidance on fair, clear, and not misleading promotions.
Open official sourceFCA promotion approval
FCA guidance on approving promotions for unauthorised persons.
Open official sourceFCA Firm Checker
Public FCA service customers can use to check a financial firm.
Open official sourceCryptoasset promotions
FCA policy statement on cryptoasset financial-promotion rules.
Open official sourceCompanies House disclosures
GOV.UK guidance on company names and trading disclosures.
Open official sourceICO data protection fee
GOV.UK guidance on ICO data-protection fee registration.
Open official sourceICO privacy notices
ICO guidance on privacy information that organisations should provide.
Open official sourceOnline selling rules
GOV.UK guidance for selling digital services and content online.
Open official source