Giles Thomas is Executive Director at FOE Global (foe.global), a UAE-based family office and private equity advisory firm. His work focuses on financial services due diligence, broker selection and investment strategy for family office and institutional clients across the GCC. That advisory work is separate from BestForexBroker, which gives no investment advice.
He brings that due-diligence discipline to BestForexBroker. Every broker is checked against the Capital Markets Authority's public licensee register and the legal entity named in its client agreement, not the firm's own summary of its licensing.
His role here is research, verification and writing. He works out which legal entity holds a Kenyan client's account, confirms its CMA licence and what that licence covers, reads the client agreement and the fee schedule, and writes the review from those documents and the account evidence. A review only says that an account was opened, funded, traded or withdrawn from when one actually was, and every screen behind it is captured and dated.
Outside this site he has been a full-week delegate at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, presented by ADGM, in 2023 and 2025. That keeps him close to how brokers and regulators talk about the industry, but it is background, not Kenyan market experience.
“A broker review is only worth reading if someone actually did the work. I publish what the registers and the contracts say, rather than what the marketing does.”
Each broker goes through the same checks before a review is written, all of them against primary sources a Kenyan reader could look up themselves. Most of what a reader wants to know cannot be answered from a broker's website, so the review goes to the register, the contract and the account instead.
No broker pays for placement or ranking order on BestForexBroker. The site may earn a commission from some brokers it reviews, and commercial relationships do not decide what a review says. Giles has no commercial relationship with any broker covered on this site beyond any affiliate arrangements the site may have, which are disclosed sitewide.
Giles researches and writes each review, and verifies it against the CMA's licensee register and the broker's client agreement before it goes to the editor.
BestForexBroker content is created using structured broker data, public regulatory records, broker fee schedules, platform testing notes and editorial review. Authors do not provide personal financial advice. Broker rankings may include affiliate partners, but commercial relationships do not determine our methodology or ratings.
On this site Giles does not provide financial advice or investment recommendations, general or personal. He may hold positions in assets discussed. The site may earn a commission from some brokers it reviews, but commercial relationships do not determine ratings.
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