Tag: AMarkets

We last reported on the Financial Commission in reviewing the unauthorized offshore broker AMarkets. This broker claims on its website that they are a member of the Financial Commission. Furthermore, AMarkets clients would be protected by the Financial Commission's "Compensation Fund for up to €20,000 per trade claim." However, the Financial Commission is neither a regulator nor does it provide an investor compensation fund.

Until August 2020, Estonia-based Serenity Financial d/b/a SerenityPay (www.serenity-financial.io) operated as a licensed crypto payment processor and Exchange operator. The license was terminated. As a contact email, SerenityPay has provided the email [email protected], which is associated with the Russian offshore broker operator GrandCapital. Jekaterina Soldatova is the only registered director. She also holds board positions with six other Estionan entities. We want to learn more about SerenityPay and Soldatova.

On December 20, 2021, the Italian regulator Consob issued a warning against a total of 15 websites that offer illegal financial services or are scams. In contrast to the last weeks, Consob did not announce a blackout of the websites. Among those warned is also the offshore broker Moneta Markets and its operator Vantage Global Limited. In addition, the Italian regulator has also warned about several fraudulent Bitcoin marketing campaigns. Below is the list of the latest warnings: