IC Markets Is Now IC: What the ic.com Move Means for UK Traders

IC Markets (now trading as IC) moved its main website from icmarkets.com to ic.com on 11 July 2026, and the old address now forwards visitors there with a permanent redirect. For a UK trader the rebrand is cosmetic. Your account, balance, MetaTrader or cTrader logins and the company you signed with are unchanged, because IC and IC Markets Global are simply trading names of Raw Trading Ltd, the Seychelles-licensed firm that onboards UK residents in practice. Two things did move, though. Fraudsters now have a fresh domain to imitate, and the FCA has updated its Warning List entry so that it names ic.com as well as the old site.

Below we set out what changed on the day, what did not, why a domain switch is a gift to clone operators, and the small housekeeping steps worth doing if you hold an IC account from the UK.

What changed on 11 July 2026

The name change had been creeping in for months before the web address caught up. IC first showed its shorter logo as part of its partnership with the Haas F1 team, and gradually dropped the word "Markets" from its marketing. The website migration itself ran on the morning of Saturday 11 July, between 07:00 and 11:00 GMT+3, when most markets were shut for the weekend. IC’s own blog announced it in advance, asked clients holding positions over the switch to keep enough free margin, and said partners’ referral links would keep working.

Since that weekend, typing icmarkets.com sends you to the equivalent page on ic.com. The Seychelles site that used to sit at icmarkets.com/global now resolves to ic.com/en, and IC’s legal pages describe the brand as "IC and IC Markets Global are the trading names of Raw Trading Ltd". IC says the products, services and trading experience clients know stayed exactly the same, and the underlying accounts were not touched.

What did not change

A new logo and a shorter URL don’t alter the legal position of a UK client in any way. The same five licensed companies sit behind the brand, and the one that matters for British residents is still the offshore arm. Here is the before-and-after in one place:

So nothing about the rebrand fixes the gaps UK traders already live with: leverage of up to 1:5000 on MT4 and MT5, no guaranteed negative balance protection, disputes heard under Seychelles law under clause 28 of the terms, and CFDs only, which means capital gains tax on profits. Our explainer on whether IC Markets is FCA regulated covers each of those in full.

The FCA warning now names ic.com

The FCA first put IC Markets Global on its Warning List on 1 October 2024, naming icmarkets.com/global. On 10 August 2026, about a month after the move, the regulator updated that entry so that its title now reads "IC Markets Global (https://www.icmarkets.com/global/en/ and https://www.ic.com/en/)". The entry states that the firm "is not authorised by us and may be targeting people in the UK", and consumers are told to avoid dealing with it. You can check the current entry yourself.

Anyone hoping that a fresh domain came with a fresh regulatory start should note how quickly the FCA followed the brand. The warning concerns the genuine IC business, not an impersonator, and a UK customer of ic.com has no route to the Financial Ombudsman and no FSCS cover. Our piece on the FCA warning explains what that means for an existing account.

Why a new domain helps scammers

Every rebrand creates a period of confusion, and fraudsters rely on it. Clients who have typed icmarkets.com for years now see ic.com in their address bar, emails arrive from a new domain, and it becomes harder to tell which version of a site is real. A short two-letter brand is also easy to pad out with extra words: lookalike addresses built from "ic", "markets", "trade", "global" or "pro" can pass a quick glance on a phone screen.

Clone operators have targeted the IC name for years. The FCA has a clone warning, first published on 7 January 2022 and updated on 30 August 2024, covering sites such as icmarketpro.com and icm-market.com that copied the details of IC Markets (EU) Ltd. A separate FCA warning, published on 26 May 2026, covers "ICMARKET" at icapitalmarket.net. A rebrand hands people like that a new story: "we’ve moved, please log in at our new site" or "verify your account after the upgrade". Our article on IC Markets clone sites shows how UK traders are approached.

Logging in after the move: which address to trust

The client area, where you deposit, withdraw and download statements, now lives at secure.ic.com. When we checked on 26 September 2026, the old secure.icmarkets.com address forwarded there with a permanent redirect, and every login and registration button on ic.com pointed to the same place. Your MetaTrader or cTrader login is separate: an account number, password and server name taken from your welcome email, entered inside the platform rather than on a web page.

A search for "IC Markets login" is where people get caught. Results can include paid adverts, social media pages calling themselves client support and lookalike domains built to copy the sign-in screen. A fake page only needs you to type your email and password once. So open the client area from a bookmark you saved yourself, and switch on two-factor authentication: IC’s Help Centre describes 2FA by authenticator app or phone verification, plus one-time backup codes you can generate from the 2FA page. Store those codes offline, not in your inbox.

Support contact is a second weak spot. IC links to its own live chat, WhatsApp, Telegram and Facebook Messenger channels from ic.com, so reach them only through those links on the site you typed. A "support agent" who messages you first, asks for your password or a 2FA code, or wants remote access to your computer is not someone to deal with. Password resets are handled by the client area itself, which emails a temporary password to your registered address.

About icmarkets.co.uk

Some UK readers try icmarkets.co.uk on the assumption that a British version exists. It doesn’t. That address is a parked domain offered for sale and has nothing to do with IC. There is no UK company in the group and no UK branch. A .co.uk address, a London phone number or a Canary Wharf postcode on anything carrying the IC name is a reason for suspicion, not reassurance. The unauthorised "ICMARKET" firm on the FCA Warning List gives a Canary Wharf address among its contact details.

Should the parked domain ever change hands, whoever buys it could put up any website they like. Treat it as unrelated to IC unless IC itself says otherwise on ic.com, which it has not.

Housekeeping for UK account holders

None of this calls for drastic action. A few minutes of tidying makes you much harder to fool:

1. Update your bookmark. Save the ic.com client area login and use only that bookmark, rather than search results or links in emails. Paid search adverts are a known route for lookalike sites.
2. Check the padlock and spelling. The address should read exactly ic.com with nothing added before the dot. Extra words, hyphens or odd endings mean you are somewhere else.
3. Lock down your email. Use a unique password and two-factor authentication on the inbox linked to your IC account, since password resets go there.
4. Save your paperwork. Download your client agreement and recent statements. The contracting party should be Raw Trading Ltd, which matches the ic.com legal pages.
5. Refuse unsolicited contact. Treat any WhatsApp or Telegram message that offers to manage your trades or chases a deposit in IC’s name as suspect. IC’s own scam guidance warns against unsolicited messages offering trading opportunities.
6. Distrust links in messages. Even an email that looks right can carry a link to a lookalike domain. Go to the site yourself instead of clicking.

Our view

We earn affiliate commission from IC Markets, so for balance: the rebrand is neither good nor bad news in itself. It is a name change. The things that decide whether IC suits a UK trader, namely the Seychelles licence, the FCA warning, the missing Ombudsman and FSCS, high leverage and the lack of spread betting, are exactly where they were in June. Experienced traders who accepted those trade-offs before the move have no new reason to leave. Beginners and anyone who wants UK protection had no good reason to join before, and still don’t. IC Markets alternatives for UK traders lists FCA-authorised firms with raw pricing and spread betting.

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Related reading

• Is IC Markets FCA regulated?
• The FCA warning on IC Markets Global explained
• IC Markets clone sites: how to spot the fakes
• Can UK residents open an IC Markets account?
• IC Markets alternatives for UK traders
• Our IC Markets review