The brand's own history
From Binary.com to Deriv
Deriv is the company that traded as Binary.com, one of the older names in online trading — the group dates its operations to 1999. The rebrand moved the products onto new platforms under a new name, and the account most people are looking for when they search for Binary.com is a Deriv account.
Checked against Deriv's own pages
What the rebrand did
The name changed and the product line broadened. Binary.com was known for a narrow set of short-term contracts; Deriv presents itself as a multi-asset broker with CFDs on forex, stocks and commodities, its own Derived Indices, options, and platforms including Deriv MT5, Deriv Trader, Deriv cTrader and Deriv Bot.
The corporate history is the same one: the same group, dating its operations to 1999, and the entity list that appears on Deriv's regulatory page today includes the companies that carried the earlier business.
For a returning user, the practical consequence is that the old brand's site now leads to Deriv, and the products have new names rather than the old ones. What was traded as a binary contract is now found among Deriv's options and multipliers.
Why this page exists, and the vendor's does not
It is the clearest example on this site of the rule that governs brand searches. For product queries about Deriv, the vendor holds almost every result — those pages are its own. For the brand's history, six of the nine results are third-party, and Deriv itself takes one.
The reason is simple enough: a company markets what it sells now, not what it used to be called. The history is written by the people who remember it, which is why an outside page can rank here and cannot rank for “deriv mt5”.
If you are coming back after a few years
Check which entity your account now sits with, since the group's structure has more companies than most and the protections differ between them — the Maltese company under the MFSA is the EU one.
Then check the products you used against what exists now: Deriv's synthetic indices trade 24/7 and are unique to it, options are offered alongside CFDs, and the platform list is longer than the old one. Our review of the broker covers the current terms.
Questions people ask
Is Binary.com the same as Deriv?
Yes — Deriv is the company that traded as Binary.com, part of a group dating its operations to 1999. The rebrand renamed the business and broadened the product line onto new platforms.
What happened to my Binary.com account?
Accounts moved with the brand; the products carry new names on new platforms. Check which Deriv entity your account now sits with, since the group runs several with different protections.
Does Deriv still offer binary options?
It offers options and multipliers alongside CFDs on its own platforms rather than the old product line under its former name. Products marketed as binary options attract the strongest regulatory restrictions in most jurisdictions.
Why do third-party sites cover the rebrand rather than Deriv?
Because a company markets what it sells now. For product searches about Deriv the vendor holds nearly every result; for the brand's history six of nine results are third-party — the history is written by people who remember it.
The broker itself is reviewed on our Deriv page, its instruments on synthetic indices, and the entity question across all nine brokers on regulated forex brokers.