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Dinosaur Merchant Bank Review: Is It Legit and Regulated?

Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited

GB Since 2003
AKA Dinosaur Securities (UK) Limited AKA DMBL

FindMyFX score

high risk

4.5/10

0 Score out of 10 10
Independent assessment Updated 2026-07-23

Contact & regulation

Official website
dinogroup.co.uk
Address
5th Floor East Wing, Vintners Place, 68 Upper Thames Street, London, England, EC4V 3BJ
Contact
Vintners Place, 68 Upper Thames Street, London, EC4V 3BJ, United Kingdom
Primary license
FCA · Unverified

Missing values mean the information has not been verified or published yet—not that the broker does not provide it.

Quick verdict

Is Dinosaur Merchant Bank legit and regulated?

FindMyFX has license records for Dinosaur Merchant Bank, but none is currently presented as fully verified. Check each entity, jurisdiction, source, and verification date before depositing.

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Broker-provided company information

Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited is an active UK investment firm offering institutional and professional brokerage services, including global foreign exchange execution. Its official pages describe spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs, options and deliverables through digital or voice trading.

Professional broker overview

FindMyFX editorial summary

Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited is an FCA-authorised UK investment firm whose official pages advertise global FX execution for institutional, corporate and professional clients. The firm offers spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs, options and deliverables through digital or voice channels, but it does not publish a standard retail minimum deposit, leverage ceiling or typical FX spread on the reviewed pages. In March 2026 the FCA fined the firm GBP 338,000 for market-abuse surveillance failures in its CFD business, and the FCA states that the firm stopped selling CFDs in May 2025.

Prepared from reviewed sources for informational purposes. This is not investment advice.

Editorial note: The reviewed materials describe institutional and professional services rather than a conventional mass-retail forex account. Public account pricing, leverage and eligibility by country were not established.

Operational status
active
Broker type
unknown
Execution model
The firm offers electronic trading systems and voice execution for global foreign-exchange transactions.
Support hours
Not verified

Support languages: English

Documented advantages

  • The UK legal entity and FCA reference number are independently identifiable.
  • Official pages describe spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs, options and deliverable FX execution.

Documented limitations

  • The reviewed pages do not publish a standard retail minimum deposit, leverage limit or typical FX spread.
  • The FCA imposed a GBP 338,000 fine in March 2026 for market-abuse surveillance failures in the CFD business.
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Published profile coverage

8 of 8 core information groups currently contain published data. This measures data availability, not broker quality or safety.

Company structure

Legal entities

Registered companies associated with this broker profile.

3 entities

Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited

Primary
GB 04977073

Dinosaur Financial Group, L.L.C

US 104446

33 Whitehall Street, Suite 1102, New York, NY 10004, United States

Dinosaur Group Holdings LLC

US 4269194

33 Whitehall Street, New York, NY 10004, United States

Trading access

Account types

Available account structures and their current verification state.

1 account

Institutional and professional brokerage

unverified
Deposit
Not shown
Leverage
Not shown

Commission information not shown.

Spread
Not shown
Base currencies
Not shown
Margin call / stop-out
—% / —%
Demo / Islamic
Unknown / Unknown
Balance protection
Unknown
Last verified
Not verified

Markets and instruments

Deliverable FX

unverified

Equities

unverified

fixed income

unverified

FX forwards

unverified

FX options

unverified

FX swaps

unverified

Listed derivatives

unverified

NDFs

unverified

Spot FX

unverified

Additional and historical websites

Licenses and regulators

FCA

436215

unverified

Last verified: Not shown

Type: Investment firm authorisation
Client class: professional
Compensation: Not shown
Segregated funds: Unknown
Negative balance protection: Unknown
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FINRA

104446

unverified

Last verified: Not shown

Type: Broker-dealer registration
Client class: Not shown
Compensation: Not shown
Segregated funds: Unknown
Negative balance protection: Unknown
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Risk flags

FCA fine for market-abuse surveillance failures

high · draft

The FCA fined Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited GBP 338,000 in March 2026 for failures to detect and report suspicious orders and transactions in its CFD business between June 2024 and May 2025. The FCA stated that the firm stopped selling CFDs in May 2025.

Jurisdiction-specific offerings

GB · professional

unverified

Entity not linked · Leverage not shown

Compensation scheme not shown

Score components

Regulation and licenses

7.5/10 · 35%

The UK entity is independently identified in Companies House and the FCA register; the US affiliate is also identifiable in FINRA BrokerCheck.

Security and track record

2.5/10 · 20%

A recent FCA enforcement action documents significant surveillance-control failures in the CFD business.

Trading conditions

2.5/10 · 15%

Official pages identify FX products and execution channels but do not publish standard retail leverage, deposits or spreads.

Company transparency

7.5/10 · 10%

Companies House, FCA, FINRA and official group pages provide legal identities, addresses and contact details.

Service quality

2.5/10 · 10%

Official contact channels are published, but no verified service-quality dataset was reviewed.

Verified user reviews

0.0/10 · 10%

No verified user-review dataset was reviewed.

Profile update history

Broker profile was published.

2026-07-23

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