The Financial Commission has launched certification for prop firms. The launch was announced on November 5, 2026. The organization is recruiting its first wave of participants, and they will receive founding company status.
What this organization is. The Financial Commission resolves disputes between traders and brokers. People turn to it when the parties have not reached an agreement directly.
Why this matters to a trader. Currently, a dispute over a challenge or a payout is decided by the prop firm itself. Certification promises an external authority to which one can appeal.
What exactly was launched?
The program is called prop firm Certification. It is addressed specifically to prop firms, not brokers.
- Before this, the prop trading industry had no separate certificate from this organization.
- Founding company status is granted to those who join the program at the start, before its public launch.
- The mechanism is familiar to the market from its work with brokers: external review of client complaints when a company's internal support has not resolved the issue.
What changes for a trader?
An external authority appears to which one can go with a dispute over a challenge or a payout.
Today, at most prop firms, the final word remains with the company itself. It calculates the drawdown, it decides whether the rules were violated, and it approves the payout.
Key point: as long as no company has obtained the certificate, the challenge rules remain the only document on which one can base a dispute. How the challenge and payouts are structured is covered in the academy.
What next?
There are no details yet. The organization has not yet published the list of founding companies or the detailed certification requirements.
Until the first certificates appear, the choice remains with the rules. You can compare terms in the prop firm catalog or via the challenge selector.
Did you read your prop firm's rules before paying?
A dispute almost always surfaces at one moment - on the payout request. And it turns out that the drawdown was calculated from the balance, not from the account maximum. Or that a trade through a data release counts as a violation. As long as there is no external arbiter in prop trading, your only argument is the text of the rules that you accepted at purchase. That is why it makes sense to compare companies by their rules: loss limits, payout timelines, permitted trading styles. Half an hour spent checking the terms is cheaper than a disabled account.