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Paid Acquisition for Forex Brokers

Two campaigns showing €45 CPA on platform can be producing FTDs at €130 and €375. Without the attribution connection between your ad platform and trading platform back-office, you're allocating budget based on a proxy metric that doesn't reflect commercial performance.

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What I Do

Paid acquisition that reports against FTDs, not registrations.

Three disciplines that apply specifically to forex broker paid acquisition — built around the FTD attribution gap, FCA/ESMA compliance requirements, and platform certification that generic agencies either ignore or don't know applies.

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FTD Attribution Diagnostic

The most commercially important paid acquisition metric for a forex broker — cost per first-time depositor by campaign — is invisible without the attribution connection between ad platform and trading platform back-office. We identify the attribution gap, specify the technical integration required to close it, and build the paid strategy around the commercial outcome rather than the platform-reported proxy.

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FCA/ESMA Ad Creative Compliance

Financial promotions rules apply to paid ad creative — restrictions on performance claims, required risk warnings, prohibited comparative statements, and promotional framing constraints that apply specifically to CFD and forex products. Every ad concept, copy variation, and landing page is reviewed against FCA and ESMA requirements before budget is committed. Non-compliant creative is regulatory risk deployed at campaign scale.

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Platform Certification & Geographic Alignment

Google and Meta require specific certification for CFD and forex advertising. Geographic targeting must align with the broker's regulatory permissions — running campaigns in jurisdictions where the broker is not authorised is both a compliance risk and a platform policy violation. Campaign architecture accounts for both before a single impression is served.

Why Specialist

What a generic paid agency misses for forex brokers.

Generic paid agencies apply standard financial services methodology to forex broker campaigns. The FTD attribution gap, CFD-specific platform certification, and FCA financial promotions constraints on creative are not generic financial advertising problems — they are forex broker-specific, and the consequences of missing them are commercially and regulatorily significant.

  • →Generic agencies report registration CPA. We connect paid spend to FTD cost — the only metric that tells you whether the campaign is commercially profitable. A campaign showing €45 CPA may be producing FTDs at €375. Generic reporting hides this.
  • →Generic agencies run financial services campaigns without checking CFD and forex platform certification requirements. A campaign architecture built without the correct certification is one policy review away from account-level suspension — taking the entire paid acquisition channel offline, not just one campaign.
  • →Generic agencies produce ad creative without FCA financial promotions review. Every performance claim, comparative statement, and implied return in a paid ad is in scope for FCA review. Non-compliant creative is regulatory risk deployed at paid acquisition speed and scale.
  • →Generic agencies target by audience demographics without regulatory alignment. Serving paid ads in jurisdictions where the broker is not authorised to operate is a compliance risk that generic geo-targeting methodology doesn't account for.

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