Editorial policy
This page describes how Asia Pip Report produces what it publishes. It is short because the rules are short, and it applies to every piece on the site.
How we assess brokers
Entity first, always. Before anything else in a review, we establish which company inside a broker's group actually onboards clients in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, and which regulator — if any — supervises that specific entity. We verify licence claims against the regulator's own public register, read the client agreement and published terms rather than the homepage, and check the regional regulators' warning lists. We never present a group's Tier-1 licence as protection for a client of its offshore entity, and we never blur offshore with onshore. Facts we cannot trace to a register, a published document, or the company's own words do not run; company claims are attributed as company claims ("the company says", "per the published terms", "as of this writing"). We do not open accounts to report trading outcomes, we do not publish signals or strategies, and nothing on this site is financial advice.
What scores mean
A score rates the broker as a reader in this region would actually experience it — the entity they can open, its documented terms, its transparency, and the recourse that really exists — not the group's best licence or its marketing. As a practical guide: a low score means we would not recommend it to anyone; a middling score means a competent operator with real, named caveats; a high score means it leads its category and still lists its cons, because in this market everything has them — and an offshore broker's ceiling is capped by what "offshore" means for recourse. No score is for sale, at any price, to anyone.
Disclosure
Asia Pip Report is commercially supported and may earn affiliate commissions or advertising
revenue from links. Any paid or affiliate content carries a disclosure notice at the top of
the post, and paid links are marked rel="sponsored". Sponsors get clearly
labelled space; they do not get editorial control, and they do not get conclusions.
Sponsored posts
Paid posts on Asia Pip Report are labelled “Sponsored”, and their links carry
rel="sponsored". Sponsors see the draft of their own sponsored post and may
correct facts about their product; the desk keeps the rating, criticisms and conclusion of
any sponsored review; sponsors have no access to editorial coverage.
Editorial coverage is free
Editorial coverage is free, decided by the desk, and cannot be bought. Genuine news, data and reports can be sent to the desk, and may be covered at its discretion with a link to the source. The desk declines sign-up offers, bonus codes, affiliate funnels and any content that is unlawful to advertise to our readers, and refunds in full any booking it declines.
Bylines
The site publishes under house bylines maintained by the editorial team. Reviews are signed Wei Lim — a disclosed house pen name, in the tradition of publications that write under a single editorial voice — which is the accountable editorial identity for everything it signs. News items run under Staff, Asia Pip Report. We do not fabricate journalist biographies or credentials.
Corrections
We correct errors of fact quickly and visibly — and in this niche the facts move: licences are granted, withdrawn, and warned against between our visits. If you spot an error or a licence status that has changed — an entity, a regulator, a term — write to us through the contact page and flag it as a correction; that queue moves fastest.
Factual corrections are free within 14 days of publication. Write to the desk at editorial@asiapipreport.com or editorial@3rdunicorn.com.