Since Mid-April 2022, the CySEC-regulated German BDSwiss has not been accepting new clients. For reporting on their offshore onboarding activities, we have been threatened several times by the BDSwiss Compliance and Legal Departments. In our re-check on 15 June 2022, BDSwiss still does not accept new clients. Catalina Pantea resigned as director in Jan 2022 , and we learned that some other key people left the company in 2019 to establish Klarpay, as regulated Swiss FinTech. The latter received a CHF3 million funding from Payabl in May 2022. Here is another update.
The BDSwiss Group d/b/a BDSwiss, Swiss Markets, and BDS Trading. These are the trading names of BDSwiss Holding Ltd, regulated by the Cyprus CySEC. The offshore entity BDS Markets, regulated by FSC in Mauritius is part of this BDSwiss Group. The FCA banned BDSwiss Group in June 2021 The German BaFin launched an investigation saying that BDS Markets has no permission to offer ist regulated services in Germany. In our review, all CySEC-approved domains were redirected to the offshore broker websites. Here is another update!