Any good social investment platform, or indeed any good platform of any kind, needs to be legitimate and regulated. The quickest way of checking that is the case in your jurisdiction is to look for information on the regulation and legality of that broker. Of course, to do this, it would be helpful to know which regulators are relevant to the USA. As part of our guide on social investments in the USA, we’ll be going through the relevant regulators as well as other security considerations.