GMO Click Securities (GMOクリック証券)

Wiki route

This entry sits under securities-firms INDEX (its domain route). Read it against DMM.com Securities for the closest retail FX / CFD peer / contrast, and against the FSA plus JSDA for the FIEA supervisory / self-regulatory boundary. The retail-FX market map lives across SBI FX Trade and Traders Securities.

TL;DR

GMO Click Securities Co., Ltd. (GMOクリック証券株式会社) is the online brokerage / OTC-FX / CFD core company of the GMO Financial HD group. As a Type I Financial Instruments Business Operator under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, it is listed in the FSA’s list of Financial Instruments Business Operators as “GMOクリック証券株式会社” (Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) 第77号). It handles FX / CFD as its mainstay and also stocks, investment trusts, and NISA.

1. License / group boundary

2. Operating model

GMO Click Securities is the securities / OTC-FX / CFD platform of the GMO financial group. Unlike GMO PG in settlement or GMO Coin in crypto assets, it is treated as a FIEA broker / OTC-derivatives operator. It also has banking adjacency, such as a securities-connect account with GMO Aozora Net Bank. In the retail FX / CFD market it is compared side-by-side with DMM.com Securities, SBI FX Trade, and Traders Securities.

3. Why this page matters

• Because GMO spans payment / banking / crypto / FX・CFD, the regulatory boundaries of each operating company tend to get mixed up. This page carves out GMO Click Securities as the FIEA / OTC-FX / CFD / broker operating company.
• Establishes the Type I operator anchor under FSA supervision and provides a comparison reference point against OTC-FX competitors.

Related

• GMO Financial HD
• GMO Coin
• GMO PG
• GMO Aozora Net Bank
• DMM.com Securities
• securities-firms INDEX
• FinWiki index

Sources

• FSA, “金融商品取引業者登録一覧”, kinyushohin.xlsx.
• GMO Click Securities, “沿革”.
• GMO Financial Holdings, “事業紹介”.