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This Editorial Policy is the binding rulebook for everything Kenya Forex Firm publishes. It exists so that every reader, every broker, and every machine that reads our markup knows exactly how our journalism is produced - and how to hold us to it.

The policy applies to all content published under our imprint, including the main site kenyaforexfirm.com, the broker-review platform at fx.kenyaforexfirm.com, our best-brokers rankings, the blog, email newsletters, and any syndicated or republished material that carries our byline.

• Forex and CFD broker reviews, comparisons and rankings
• Educational guides, courses material and trading explainers
• Market commentary, news analysis and opinion pieces
• Deposit, withdrawal and M-Pesa funding guides
• Video, podcast and social content produced by our editorial team

The policy binds everyone who publishes in our name: staff analysts, editors, freelance writers, guest contributors and partners. Accepting a commission from the Chief Editor includes accepting this document in full. Where this policy conflicts with a commercial agreement, this policy prevails.

We exist so that the ordinary Kenyan trader meets the market on equal terms - with the same quality of broker intelligence that institutional players take for granted.

Kenya Forex Firm was founded in Nairobi in 2014 as a forex training institution. As our students moved from classrooms to live accounts, one question kept returning: which broker can I actually trust with my money? We began answering it the only way we knew how - by testing brokers with our own funds, reading their legal documents, and publishing what we found. That practice grew into the review platform we run today, held to a single editorial standard across everything we produce.

Four commitments shape every editorial decision we make:

• Independence - commercial relationships never direct coverage or scores.
• Accuracy - claims are verified against primary sources before publication, and corrected openly when wrong.
• Local relevance - funding in KES, M-Pesa realities, CMA licensing and Nairobi trading hours are first-class review criteria, not footnotes.
• Accountability - every article carries a byline, every byline a reachable human, and every error a public record.

Our editorial team decides what to cover, how to score it, and when to publish - without reference to any commercial interest, including our own revenue.

• Pay-to-play is prohibited. No broker can purchase a review, a score, a ranking position, or the removal of a negative finding.
• Advertisers and affiliates receive no editorial preview, no veto, and no influence over methodology.
• Compensation of analysts and editors is never tied to the performance of any individual broker partnership.
• Commission rates with brokers are negotiated by the commercial team and frozen before any review begins; they do not vary with scores.
• We accept no contractual clause that permits a partner to suppress, delay or soften published findings.

Brokers reviewed by Kenya Forex Firm are offered a seven-day factual-review window before publication. They may point to factual inaccuracies - wrong licence numbers, outdated fees, misquoted terms - and we will verify and fix genuine errors. They may not negotiate language, scores, or conclusions. A broker that declines the window does not delay publication.

We would rather publish one verified sentence than ten impressive ones. Every material claim in our reviews passes through a documented verification chain before it reaches readers.

The source hierarchy

Claims are verified against the strongest available source, in this order of preference:

1. 01Regulator records - the CMA register for Kenyan licensees; FCA, ASIC, CySEC and equivalent registers for offshore entities.
2. 02Primary legal documents - client agreements, terms of business, risk disclosures and execution policies.
3. 03Our own live-account records - recorded deposits, withdrawals, spreads and fills from accounts funded with our own money.
4. 04Official broker communications - published fee schedules and support transcripts, timestamped.
5. 05Reputable third-party data - used only to corroborate, never as a sole source.

The three-stage edit

1. 01Analyst - researches and tests, producing evidence for every claim.
2. 02Fact-checker - independently re-verifies figures, licence details and dates; every datapoint receives a verification timestamp.
3. 03Chief Editor - final sign-off on fairness, tone, risk language and disclosure completeness.

Where a claim cannot be independently verified, we either do not publish it or we publish it clearly flagged as the broker's own assertion. Screenshots and test records are archived for a minimum of 24 months so that any correction can be audited against original evidence.

Every review on Kenya Forex Firm begins the same way: we open a live account, deposit our own Kenyan shillings via M-Pesa and bank transfer, and trade. Brokers are judged on what our accounts actually experienced - not on their marketing pages.

Each broker is scored against a fixed rubric of more than forty data points. The rubric is weighted to reflect what matters most to a Kenyan retail trader, and the weights below are the exact weights used in scoring. Two analysts score every broker independently; variances above 0.5 points are re-tested before a score is locked.

CMA-licensed brokers are formally re-tested quarterly; offshore brokers every six months. A regulatory action, insolvency event, ownership change or fee-schedule revision triggers an immediate ad-hoc re-review. Scores can go down - and regularly do.

Accuracy is a continuous duty, not a publication-day ceremony. Markets move, brokers change their terms, and we make mistakes. This section defines exactly how each case is handled.

Three tiers of correction

• Minor (typographical, formatting) - corrected in place; a dated note is added for transparency where the change affects meaning.
• Factual (figures, licence details, feature claims) - corrected in place, a dated editor's note is added to the article, and the change is recorded in the public corrections log below.
• Material (a change that could alter a reader's decision) - corrected in place, a prominent dated editor's note is pinned to the article, the entry appears in the corrections log, and the piece re-enters the full three-stage edit.

Verified factual errors are corrected within 72 hours of confirmation. Readers and brokers can report errors via corrections@kenyaforexfirm.com or through the form in §10. Every published article carries a visible Last-Updated date so readers can judge the currency of the information.

Kenya Forex Firm is a commercial publication, and we are candid about how we earn. Transparency about our funding is the price of asking for your trust.

Our revenue comes from three streams: affiliate commissions when readers open accounts through our links, training and education services through our academy, and clearly labelled advertising. The first stream funds our research desk, so it deserves a precise explanation.

• This disclosure appears on every page that contains affiliate links, before the first link - never buried at the foot.
• Sponsored content is labelled 'Sponsored' at both the top and bottom of the article and is excluded from editorial rankings.
• Commission rates do not vary with a broker's score, ranking position, or review tone.
• Our training services are disclosed wherever course or mentorship material is referenced editorially.
• Disclosure language follows guidance from the Competition Authority of Kenya and international best practice (including FTC endorsement guides) for our readers abroad.

A conflict of interest is not a crime - an undisclosed one is. Every person who publishes under our name must declare financial and personal relationships that could reasonably be seen to affect their judgement.

• Staff and their immediate families must declare any trading accounts, balances or bonus arrangements held with brokers we cover.
• Anyone holding funds with a broker is recused from scoring or writing about that broker.
• No staff member may hold equity, debt or directorships in a broker under coverage.
• Gifts and hospitality above KES 5,000 in value are declined; anything below that threshold is logged in a register reviewed quarterly.
• Press trips and sponsored events attended for research are disclosed in any resulting coverage.
• Written conflict declarations are renewed annually and on every material change of circumstances.

Suspected breaches are escalated to the Chief Editor, investigated within ten business days, and - where substantiated - recorded in our governance notes. Freelance contributors are held to the same standard through their commissioning agreements.

Anonymous authority has no place in financial publishing. Every article we publish carries a real byline attached to a public biography, so you can judge exactly who is speaking and why they are qualified to.

• Every article is signed; the byline links to a biography page with the author's credentials, experience and contact route.
• Review analysts must demonstrate live-market experience and pass our internal methodology certification before their byline appears on scored reviews.
• Contributors are vetted for expertise and for conflicts (§08) before commissioning.
• Freelance writers are paid flat fees - never per ranking, per link click, or per conversion.
• Guest contributions pass through the same three-stage edit as staff work; the guest's own credentials are stated plainly.

Ultimate editorial accountability rests with the Office of the Chief Editor, led by our founder Patrick Mahinge - whose profile, credentials and public footprint are set out opposite.

Anyone - a reader, a trader, a broker, or a regulator - may raise a complaint about our content or our conduct. We commit to a process with published deadlines rather than a contact form that disappears into silence.

1. 01Acknowledgement - within 48 business hours of receipt, with a unique reference number.
2. 02Review - the complaint is examined against our archived evidence and this policy.
3. 03Substantive response - within 14 days, including the decision and the reasoning behind it.
4. 04Escalation - unresolved complaints may be escalated in writing to the Chief Editor, whose decision is final within the organisation.

Brokers and individuals named in our coverage have a standing right of reply: we will publish or link fair, factual responses to our findings, subject to verification and to Kenyan law on defamation and privacy. Complaints may be filed via the form below or in writing to complaints@kenyaforexfirm.com.

Advertising pays for journalism, which is precisely why advertising must never be mistaken for journalism. Every paid placement is separated from editorial content by both label and layout.

• Paid placements carry a visible 'Advertisement' or 'Sponsored' label before the content begins.
• Advertisements are visually distinct from editorial design and never mimic our review scores or ranking tables.
• Sponsored articles disclose the sponsor, are reviewed by the editorial desk for factual claims, and never influence rankings.
• We refuse advertising from: unlicensed binary-options operations; any product promising 'guaranteed' or risk-free returns; signal services guaranteeing profits; multi-level-marketing forex schemes; unregistered copy-trading or PAMM schemes; and crypto pump or 'doubling' operations.
• We do not run deceptive formats - disguised pop-unders, fake system alerts, or anything designed to be mistaken for platform warnings.

Our advertising standards are reviewed together with this policy each year. Advertisers who breach placement terms after acceptance are removed and refunded; the removal is logged.

We use modern tools to research faster, and we hold them to the same evidentiary standard we hold our writers: they assist, they never author, and nothing they produce is published unverified.

• AI tools may assist research, summarisation and drafting - never as the sole source of any factual claim.
• Every AI-assisted claim is verified by a human against the primary source hierarchy in §04 before publication.
• No article is published under an AI byline or an AI persona; bylines are always real, reachable people.
• Content substantially produced with AI assistance carries a visible label: 'Assisted by AI tools - researched, verified and signed off by our editors.'
• AI may not generate fabricated data, synthetic quotes, false screenshots, or simulated broker test records. Our screenshots and trade records are from our own accounts, always.
• Reader data used with AI tooling is processed under our privacy commitments in §14.

This warning appears on every review and ranking page - not as decoration, but because it is true. Our editorial responsibilities around risk are specific:

• We never promise, imply or illustrate guaranteed profits; performance examples are clearly labelled, historical and non-promissory.
• We state realistic expectations: most traders lose money initially, and education is not a profit guarantee.
• Offshore and unlicensed entities are flagged prominently, and CMA-licensed alternatives are presented where they exist.
• We encourage demo accounts and conservative leverage for new traders, and we link to regulator resources, including the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya.
• We do not publish content that pressures readers into deposits, including countdowns, scarcity tactics or 'limited bonus' framing.

We publish from Nairobi for a global audience, and we hold ourselves to the laws of Kenya alongside the international standards our readership expects.

• Data Protection Act, 2019 (Kenya) - reader data is collected lawfully, minimised, and never sold; EU readers additionally receive GDPR-standard rights.
• Consumer Protection Act, 2012 (Kenya) - our advertising and disclosure practices are designed to meet its fairness requirements.
• Capital Markets Act and CMA advertising standards - we do not present ourselves as a licensed investment adviser, and content about regulated activities is drafted accordingly.
• Defamation - we publish allegations about firms only when supported by primary evidence or clearly attributed to official sources, and we honour the right of reply in §10.
• Copyright Act (Cap 533) - quotations, fee schedules and screenshots are used under fair dealing with attribution; broker trademarks are used editorially and remain the property of their owners.

Legal questions, takedown requests and data-protection requests may be directed to legal@kenyaforexfirm.com and are acknowledged within five business days.

An editorial policy that never changes is either perfect or ignored - we are neither. This document is owned by the Office of the Chief Editor and formally reviewed at least once a year.

• The full policy is re-examined every August, or sooner if regulation, technology or our business changes materially.
• Material changes are announced on-site for 30 days and summarised in the version table below.
• Any reader may propose amendments in writing; every proposal receives a written response.
• Breaches of this policy by staff are handled under our internal disciplinary process, with outcomes reported to the Chief Editor.

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