WCC Proceedings is a small editorial desk that keeps dated files on trading platforms promoted to the public online. The site publishes one thing: a record. For each platform we write down the claim as it is made, the checks we ran against public sources, the date we ran them, and the questions still open at the end.
What the word case means here
It means a file with a subject, a date and an open or closed status. It does not mean a legal proceeding. We do not sue anyone, we take no part in litigation, we have no investigative powers, and we cannot require a company to answer a question. Where a file says a check returned nothing, that is a statement about a search performed by a journalist on a stated date using public sources that anybody else can use too.
We chose the filing metaphor because it forces a discipline the rest of this genre avoids. A file has to say when it was opened, what evidence it contains and what would change it. A ranking table has to say none of those things, which is why ranking tables are cheap to produce and hard to trust.
Who writes the files
Three people keep this site. Harriet Lundqvist edits the record and decides what counts as evidence in a file. Emeka Fairhurst runs the register searches and writes the sections on payments and custody. Priya Wolstenholme is responsible for the wording of verdicts and for corrections, which means she is the person who removes a sentence that claims more than the evidence supports.
None of us publishes a biography claiming credentials a reader cannot verify. What we can offer instead is method: every check described in a file can be repeated by the reader, and every file names the date on which we ran it.
What we do not do
We do not rate platforms, rank them or compare them in tables of stars. We do not accept payment to change, soften or remove a finding. We do not write about a platform we could not examine and then pretend the examination happened. We do not publish a licence number, a company name, a country of registration, a founding date, a fee, a minimum deposit, a user count or a store rating unless a named public source carries it and we print the date of that source.
We also do not tell anyone to trade or not to trade. Nothing on this site is investment advice, and the risk section in every file exists because leveraged products are capable of taking more than a reader planned to lose.
How the site is paid for
Some pages carry a link or a button leading to a registration form operated by a third party, and the site can be paid when a reader uses it. That arrangement is disclosed on every file, above the text rather than under it, and it has no influence on what a finding says. The full explanation is on the why trust us page, and the checking procedure is set out in the method.
If you think a file is wrong, write to us. The contact page explains what a correction needs in order to be published, and the standard is the same one we apply to ourselves.