David Levy is the head of content at CompareForexBrokers and the site’s fact-checker. He reads every broker figure against its source before a page goes live.
How I check a page
Justin and Noam do the research and run the testing. I come in last, and my question for every figure on a page is always the same: where did this number come from, and does the source still say it? I trace each one back to the broker’s own documents or the FCA register rather than to whatever a rival comparison site has published, whether it is a spread, a Firm Reference Number or a leverage cap. When a figure and its source disagree, the figure waits until I know which one is right.
What software testing taught me
I spent more than a decade in software quality assurance before this, most of it writing and running test plans. That work leaves you with one stubborn habit. You decide what a pass actually is and check the real output against it. A plausible result you have not verified still counts as a fail. I hold broker numbers to the same line. I am an ISTQB Certified Tester and hold two Salesforce certifications, though the certificates matter less than the reflex they trained: distrust a figure until it is checked.
When a figure is wrong
Broker terms move constantly. A spread widens one month, a firm changes its FCA entity the next, an account type quietly disappears. A page can fall out of date between checks because of it, so a correction here is the process doing its job. If you have spotted a figure on the site that looks off, the contact page reaches me, and I will trace it back to the source myself. Genuine errors get corrected and the page re-dated.
You can read how we cite sources and handle corrections in full on the why we’re trustworthy page.