We’ve come a long way

We celebrate our 30th anniversary, marking three decades of helping self-directed traders navigate the markets. A frequent award-winner, we’ve firmly established ourselves as the ‘Most Trusted’ broker (Compare Forex Brokers’ Awards, 2025 & 2026).

FTMO, the global leader in modern prop trading, completes the acquisition of OANDA. The move heralds the beginning of a global trading powerhouse, covering modern prop trading, brokerage services and more.

Our global integration with TradingView, the world’s largest charting platform and trading social network completes.

We secure a majority interest in Coinpass Limited, a crypto investing platform for UK businesses, registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Signaling the start of an exciting new phase of growth for OANDA.

We partner with Paxos Trust Company, a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, to give our US clients access to crypto trading. In the same year we team up with the New York Red Bulls, the sponsorship driving awareness of our world class brand to new audiences.

We enter into an agreement to buy 100% of the shares of leading Polish multi-asset class broker, Dom Maklerski TMS Brokers, growing OANDA across the Baltics and Eastern Europe.

OANDA is bought by CVC Capital Partners, a global alternative investment manager specialising in private equity. Heralding a new start for our company.

We’re Singapore’s No. 1 FX Broker for the fourth year in a row, in the Investment Trends 2017 Singapore CFD & FX Report. It’s the year we also become one of the largest FX brokers operating in the US.

Having invested heavily in achieving institutional-grade execution, we launch a new state-of-the-art platform called V20. In the same year, FXWeek name us the world’s Best Retail FX Platform at their prestigious eFX awards.

We become the largest foreign FX broker in Japan, and side with our clients during the Swiss National Bank crisis.

We open an office in Sydney, are honoured to receive Highest Overall Customer Satisfaction awards in the US, UK, Singapore and Australia from Investment Trends and announce free developer access to fxTrade via a cutting-edge Rest API.

In 2012, we add several additional CFDs to our portfolio, giving our clients in certain markets the chance to trade additional commodities, precious metals, indices and bonds. WIRED magazine adds us to the list of 10 Non-California Tech Companies You Wished You Worked For.

A significant year for our global footprint. In 2011 we open our London office which acts as our European headquarters. Meanwhile, over in Asia, our partnership with MyGaika becomes OANDA Japan.

We receive a US$100 million investment from venture capitalists and expand into the Asia-Pacific region for the first time, opening an office in Singapore.

In 2006, we launch the first version of MarketPulse, providing traders with in-depth insights into key events that could impact the markets. In the same year, several banks begin white-labelling our trading engine to support their own retail clients.

Creating greater pricing flexibility and further reducing spreads, we become the first broker to introduce fractional pips quoted to the fifth decimal place.

A tech firm at heart, we develop an API for the fxTrade platform, enabling clients to automate their trading and hedging strategies.

We launch a proprietary trading platform, fxTrade, that helps pioneer the development of internet-based currency trading around the globe, enabling forex investors to trade the markets with as little as US$1.

We offer FX conversion, localisation, decision support and forecasting services for corporate clients, surviving the Y2K bug thanks to our cutting-edge technology.

Developed in conjunction with NOKIA, we launch one of the first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services in the world. We also release our latest currency converter for AOL.

By 1998 we’ve revolutionised currency data by becoming the first company to share exchange rate information on the Internet, free of charge. Several tax authorities and leading audit firms around the world now begin to subscribe to our corporate solution, OANDA Rates.

We’re co-founded by Dr Michael Stumm, a professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, and Dr Richard Olsen of The Olsen Ltd, a leading econometric research and development firm. The company is incorporated in the state of Delaware.