David Chen

David Chen spent nine years in compliance advisory across APAC and Europe before joining BrokerDataNet as Compliance and Regulation Editor. He worked directly with ASIC-licensed brokers on their internal compliance programmes and has a deep working knowledge of how FCA, ASIC, CySEC, and MAS operate in practice — not just what their websites say.

His role at BrokerDataNet is to independently verify every regulatory claim before it is published. This means cross-referencing licence details against official regulator registers, flagging discrepancies where a broker's marketing overstates its regulatory standing, and signing off on the compliance section of every review.

David is particularly focused on the distinction between top-tier regulation — FCA, ASIC, MAS — and offshore licensing that provides little to no investor protection. It is a distinction that matters enormously for retail traders but is frequently obscured in broker marketing materials.