What is Headquarters?

Headquarters is the place a provider maintains its registered head office, given as a two-letter country code. It matters because the market a provider sits in decides the rules it follows, the currency it lends or pays in, and where your money sits if something goes wrong. 1Cover is based in Australia, 10Life in Hong Kong, 123Seguro in Argentina and 1822direkt in Germany. A provider based outside your own market may not sit under the protection scheme you expect.