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February 1, 2023

Introducing Offshore CySEC-Regulated Errante And Its Offshore Activities!

Errante is the trading name of the investment company Notely Trading Ltd, which CySEC regulates with license number 383/20. Errante also operates two offshore mutations via Errante Trading LLC, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, and Errante Securities (Seychelles) Ltd, regulated by the FSA Seychelles. For unknown reasons, the Seychelles mutation switched the domain Errante.com to Errante-Global.com in December 2022. Here is our initial review.

January 31, 2023

Introducing CySEC Broker GO Markets And Its Offshore Mutation!

GO Markets is an Australian multi-asset broker regulated by CySEC in Cyprus. Besides, as is common with many CySEC-registered brokers, the broker scheme operates an offshore mutation regulated by the FSC Mauritius. This allows the strict ESMA and CySEC regulations to be bypassed, higher leverage can be offered, and pre-KYC deposits can be accepted. GO Markets offers a leverage of up to 1:500 and accepts clients from the EEA area without any problems. Here is our initial review.

January 24, 2023

Interesting: The Explosive Growth Of Offshore Broker RoboForex!

RoboMarkets Ltd is a CySEC-regulated broker d/b/a RoboMarkets. RoboForex is the scheme's offshore broker operated by RoboForex Ltd, Belize, regulated by FSC Belize. The offshore broker solicits clients in EEA regions and offers leverage of up to 1:1000. According to Similarweb statistics, more than 2.8 million people visit the website in the last 28 days, with the majority coming from Mexico, Brazil, and Russia. Here is our update. RoboForex recorded explosive growth over the last months.

January 19, 2023

Novox Group: The Hidden Binary Options Scam Enabler And The Guilty Plea!

Novox Capital, once a CySEC-regulated company, operated some "regulated" binary options brands. Additionally, Novox provided services to numerous scam schemes and offered them a regulatory umbrella: Option888 of Uwe Lenhoff, OptionStars of Gal Barak, and many others. The beneficial owners of the Novox Group were the cousins' Shay Hillel and Yehoram Hillel. They were also the main shareholders of the broker software company Tradologic. Novox and the Hillels are also at the center of the various trials.

January 5, 2023

CySEC-Regulated OctaFX Continues Its Offshore Activities

In February 2022, we published our initial review on Octa Markets Cyprus Ltd d/b/a OctaFX. The broker is regulated by CySEC with license number 372/18...

January 1, 2023

Interesting: CySEC-Regulated BDSwiss And Its Metabroker activities for Lydian.World!

The Metaverse is considered the next big thing. Not only Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is betting on it but also the Multi-level marketing (MLM) industry. GSPartners and its gaming & finance platform, Lydian.Worlds, which gamifies business and finance, relies on crypto and NFTs. Also on board is Jan Malkus' CySEC-regulated BDSwiss as the "MetaBroker." Malkus gets celebrated with Lydian.World founder Josip Heit at the launch event in Dubai in May 2022.

December 16, 2022

CySEC Settles With BCM Begin Capital Markets For Possible Regulatory Violations!

The multi-asset broker BCM Begin Capital Markets CY Ltd is regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) with CIF Licence number 274/15. On 16 December 2022, CySEC informed that a €100,000 settlement has been reached with the BCM for possible violations of the regulatory framework. The second settlement in 2022. In July 2022, CySEC informed that a €170,000 settlement has been reached for possible violations of the regulatory framework.

December 16, 2022

Interesting Approach Of CySEC Broker ColmexPro!

This morning, we received an unexpected email from Rafael Ciosmak of CySEC-regulated broker ColmexPro welcoming us as a new client. Strangely only that we had not registered at all. We were asked to upload our ID and residency confirmation and make deposits. We did not upload any documents and did not pass a KYC check and still could have deposited €150,000 via credit card through BridgerPay. This is indeed an extraordinary approach by this CySEC broker.

November 30, 2022

Funny: CySEC Fined Suspended Binary Options Perpetrator Novox With €100!

The CySEC board informed that it imposed an administrative fine of €100 on Novox Capital Ltd since it did not successfully submit the QST-CIF Form to CySEC for the first quarter of the year 2022 within the set deadline, as required by Circular C497 of CySEC. Effective October 1, 2022, former binary options broker Novox Capital has voluntarily suspended due to acquisition and restructuring. The website is offline.

November 29, 2022

Dear Legal Department of Alvexo! Stop Your Defamation Campaign!

In April 2022, we published an initial report on the CySEC-regulated Alvexo Group and its offshore activities. In our review, we found that Alvexo used fraudulent crypto campaigns such as 1k Daily Profit or BitIQ to promote its website. Those who registered with these fraud campaigns were directed to the payment page of the offshore broker Alvexo. The CySEC broker has threatened the FinTelegram hosting partner to have the review removed. However, our hoster did not see any violation. Here is the story of the Alvexo defamation campaign against FinTelegram!

November 28, 2022

Attention! Do Not Fall For The Mind-Money Investment Scheme!

A few days ago, Cyprus Insider (@InsiderCyprus) tweeted that he knows the owners and operators of various brokers and investment schemes. Among them is Mind Money (mind-money.eu), allegedly operated by CySEC-regulated Zerich Securities Ltd. However, the domain Mind-Money.eu is not approved by CySEC. Mind-Money offers investors access to shares in IPO and pre-IPO. The registration did not work in our review on Nov 28, 2022. Stay far away.

November 16, 2022

Offshore Broker XBPrime And Its Connections To FTX Europe!

We brought an initial review of the XBPrime broker operated by the offshore entity MarketFinancials Ltd, a securities dealer registered by the FSA Seychelles. The payment agent is Cyprus-registered M&N Equity Research Ltd. The offshore entity is said to be owned by Cyprus-registered Proverial Ltd, where Israeli Asher Afriat is registered as a director. He is also a director of the CySEC-regulated FTX (EU) Ltd (formerly K-DNA Financial Services Ltd), which operated as FTX EU. CySEC recently suspended the license of FTX Europe (report here).