David Levy is the head of content at CompareForexBrokers and the site’s fact-checker. Before a page goes live, he checks every broker figure against its source, so each number has already been verified.
How I check a page
Justin and Noam do the research and run the testing. My check comes last, and the 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. So every figure on the site has been verified at source, not recycled from elsewhere.
What software testing taught me
Five and a half years in software testing before this, most of it writing and running test plans, leaves a 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. Broker numbers are held to the same line. The degree is a Bachelor of Business Systems from Monash University, and the graduate diploma and graduate certificate are from Swinburne University of Technology. Being an ISTQB Certified Tester and holding two Salesforce certifications matters less than the reflex they trained: distrust a figure until it is checked. That reflex is what puts broker data through a pass/fail check, not just a glance.
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 A page can fall out of date between checks because of it, so a correction here is the process doing its job.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 each figure is traced back to the source personally. Genuine errors get corrected and the page re-dated. A report is the same verification step every figure on the site has already passed.
You can read how we cite sources and handle corrections in full on the why we’re trustworthy page.