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Flow Traders Review
Flow Traders is a Dutch market maker listed in Amsterdam. It trades exchange traded products with its own money and does not open accounts for retail traders.
Min Deposit
N/A
Spreads From
Not applicable, no public retail spreads
Max Leverage
Not applicable, institutional market maker only
Platforms
No public retail platform, institutional dealing only
Pros
- Listed on Euronext Amsterdam with public yearly financial reports
- One of the largest market makers for exchange traded products worldwide
- Dutch trading unit is directly overseen by the AFM regulator
- Active for more than twenty years across Europe, the US and Asia
- US units are registered broker dealers under the SEC and FINRA
Cons
- Not a retail broker, so ordinary traders cannot open a personal account
- Fined close to 2.1 million dollars by Korean regulators in 2026
- Paid a nearly 4.8 million dollar CONSOB fine in Italy in 2024
- Fined 40,000 dollars by NYSE Arca in 2022 for failing its own quoting duty
- Fined 50,000 dollars by FINRA in 2024 over weak pre trade risk controls
- Long history of smaller exchange fines for order and data reporting errors
Flow Traders began in Amsterdam in 2004, quoting prices for exchange traded funds. It grew into one of the biggest market makers for exchange traded products, and listed its shares on Euronext Amsterdam in 2015 under the ticker FLOW. The group now also prices bonds, currencies, commodities and digital assets, from desks in Europe, the United States and Asia.
This is not a retail forex broker. Flow Traders does not open accounts for individual people, so there is no minimum deposit or trading app to review here. It trades with its own money and quotes buy and sell prices to banks and other large financial firms, across thousands of products on markets worldwide.
Its Dutch unit answers to the AFM, and its US units register with the SEC and FINRA. Regulators have fined Flow Traders units many times for order and reporting errors. The two largest cases are a 4.8 million dollar CONSOB fine in Italy in 2024, and a Korean fine near 2.1 million dollars in 2026, both over short selling rules.
Max Leverage
Not applicable, institutional market maker only
Spreads From
Not applicable, no public retail spreads
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