Get a forex license in Denmark.

A fondsmæglerselskab licence from Finanstilsynet under § 13 of the lov om fondsmæglerselskaber og investeringsservice og -aktiviteter (LOV nr 1155 of 2021, consolidated as LBK nr 467 of 26 April 2026). Denmark has no separate forex or CFD licence: the bilag 1 services you apply for, such as dealing on own account, decide the capital class and the levy pools.

Finanstilsynet has 12 months from receipt at most. Section 22 of the Act requires a reasoned refusal within six months of a complete file and a decision within 12 months in every case, and an applicant still waiting six months after a complete file may go to court. We plan for 9-12 months from filing.

A Danish broker dealing on own account needs €750,000, the class every market-making CFD broker falls into; an agency firm holding client money needs €150,000, and one holding none €75,000 (§ 18 stk. 1). IFR's K-factor and fixed-overheads requirements apply on top of these floors.

Finanstilsynet's application fee for a fondsmæglerselskab is confirmed per case before we quote. The yearly levy follows FIL chapter 22: 10.5 per mille of salary, commission and directors' fee costs with a minimum written as DKK 15,000, plus balance-sheet pools for dealers on own account and a transaction-reporting fee banded by volume; every fixed amount is set at 2016 level and indexed each year.

Finanstilsynet's permanent CFD measure, which received a positive ESMA opinion on 23 July 2019: leverage from 30:1 on major currency pairs to 2:1 on cryptocurrencies, close-out at 50% of required margin, negative balance protection, no bonuses and a standard risk warning. Its retail ban on binary options received an ESMA opinion on 24 June 2019.

Yes - the licence passports into all 30 EEA states under MiFID II Art. 34-35, and Finanstilsynet forwards a services notification within one month. Retail clients abroad stay under their host state's CFD measure. In the other direction, an EU firm's branch in Denmark pays an annual levy under FIL § 363 b, written as DKK 8,000 at 2016 level.

Yes - § 20 stk. 2 lets Finanstilsynet refuse a licence where the head office is placed in Denmark only to avoid the law of the country where most of the applicant's clients live. Where the client plan points to another market, we say so before filing.

Danish corporate tax is 22% for 2026 and 2027 under selskabsskatteloven § 17 stk. 1; whether the 26/22 multiplier for financial companies in § 17 A reaches a fondsmæglerselskab is confirmed per structure. Dividends leave with 27% withholding by default and 0% to qualifying EU or treaty parents.

Sweden is easier to price: Finansinspektionen publishes a SEK 975,000 application fee and says it decides within six months of a complete, paid file, and Swedish corporate tax is 20.6% against 22%. Denmark answers with a 12-month limit and a court route in statute, and a levy floor written as DKK 15,000 at 2016 level, indexed since, against Sweden's SEK 150,000 minimum fee.

We build the fondsmæglerselskab file the way Finanstilsynet's checklist reads - procedures per licensed area, the auditor's statement, the monthly budget, fit-and-proper forms - and check the client plan against § 20 stk. 2 first. The work runs through our Copenhagen office, with the levy and tax model built alongside the application.