OANDA Japan Inc, a subsidiary of online broker OANDA Corporation, plans to make two-factor authentication mandatory.

The change is scheduled for 2025 without any precise date announced yet. The 2FA was made available by the broker in May 2025, but it has been recommended rather than mandatory.

The broker notes that recently, there have been frequent cases of unauthorized access and impersonation transactions due to the theft of customer information (IDs, passwords, etc.) through phishing and malware.

If you have not currently enabled two-factor authentication when logging in to your My Page, OANDA Japan strongly recommends that you do so as soon as possible, rather than waiting for the mandatory implementation.

Google Authenticator is a free security app available for smartphones. When logging in to My Page, OANDA Lab, or the fxTrade platform, you will need to enter a one-time code generated by this app in addition to your usual email address and password.

This prevents unauthorized access by third parties and strengthens security when logging in to My Page.

Please note that this procedure is different from the two-step verification for MT4 and MT5.

To use this feature, you must first install the Google Authenticator app on your smartphone and set up two-step verification from My Page.