In 2016, retail access to the financial markets was still divided by asset class. Forex and CFD brokers sat in one place, stockbrokers in another, and crypto traders used standalone exchanges, so a trader who wanted several markets often kept several accounts on several platforms.
Silver Peak Markets was founded that year and today runs forex, crypto, commodities and indices side by side on one platform.
In this article, read about that story, how it all began in 2016, about their move from separate market silos to one account, and from price-only comparison to a wider test of service, speed and clarity.
What retail trading looked like when the company began?
Desktop-first platforms were the norm in 2016, and brokers were judged largely on spreads. The crypto surge of 2017 and the pullback that followed in 2018 then pushed digital assets into the conversation of mainstream retail brokers and turned volatility and custody into practical questions for traders.
The Silver Peak Markets story began in that period, during what the company calls a significant transformation in global financial markets. The company was shaped by firsthand market experience across multiple cycles, and its about page puts the idea as expertise across market cycles, “through growth, volatility and everything in between”.
The early years meant working through both growth and volatility and converting challenges into lasting expertise, and the about page now counts 10+ years of market experience.
One account for markets that used to be separate
The clearest answer to the fragmented market of 2016 is how the offer is organised today.
Silver Peak Markets lists forex pairs, major cryptocurrencies, commodities such as gold and silver, and global indices as available from one unified account, with live pricing across them and desktop and mobile kept in sync. For a trader who would once have needed a currency broker and a crypto exchange, that means one login and one view of the account.
The entry point follows the same logic. Bronze plan starts at a $250 minimum deposit with full platform access and the forex and crypto markets, and the company’s advice to a trader unsure of the right plan is to start there and upgrade at any time, with history and settings carried over.
Silver adds commodities and indices, and the plans page puts the principle plainly: no plan locks a client out of the platform, and a plan changes the limits. Service is built to grow with the account too, from email support at Bronze to a dedicated account manager and, at Diamond, a 24/7 direct line.
A market that began to ask for clarity
From 2018 onward, tighter retail leverage and disclosure rules in several major markets made cost transparency, plain risk statements and client-money handling into things retail traders compare.
The pandemic period of 2020 then brought a large wave of first-time retail traders, many of them arriving through mobile-first platforms, and multi-asset access in one account became an expectation rather than a feature.
Silver Peak Markets lists transparency first among its four stated values, and its published material shows what that means in practice. The home page explains the spread as the main cost of opening a trade and describes leverage as something that amplifies both gains and losses, which is why stop loss and take profit tools are built in.
On protection, the company says client funds are segregated from its operating capital and that each account is verified before trading, and the about page names bank-level encryption and multi-factor authentication among its security measures. On forex, negative balance protection means an account balance will not go below zero.
AI-assisted analysis moves toward retail platforms
From 2022, AI-assisted analysis and automated risk tools began to move from institutional desks toward retail platforms, and traders started weighing speed, data quality and clarity of conditions alongside price. Silver Peak Markets answers that shift on two levels.
Daily expert-verified market signals are part of the offer from Silver upward. AI strategy tools arrive at Diamond, where the company says the tool works around the clock to identify opportunities in less than a hundredth of a second, inside the client’s own account and within risk parameters the client sets.
Execution is part of the same argument. The company’s market tracking always shows orders route and fill in milliseconds, without requote surprises when the market moves between click and confirmation. That is a statement about speed, and for a trader placing frequent orders on volatile instruments, speed is where the platform’s design matters most.
Where Silver Peak Markets stands today?
Silver Peak Markets works from Geneva and London under Chief Executive Officer Henrik Vasstrand, with named heads for finance, technology and operations beside him. The company reports more than 500,000 clients worldwide.
Its stated vision is to become the leading and most trusted partner for traders globally. That is an intention rather than an achievement. The next work sits where the company says its focus widened after the early years: analysis, infrastructure and client support, applied to markets and tools that keep changing.
