Tag: BDSwiss

German entrepreneur Jan Malkus has been identified as the beneficial owner behind the controversial broker scheme BDSwiss, a group that has faced significant regulatory challenges in various jurisdictions over the last three years. Therefore, the CySEC-regulated BDSwiss became an offshore broker supervised by offshore regulators. The successor CySEC scheme, Viverno, does not seem to be successful. We maintained the Red Compliance listing.

Until recently, BDSwiss was regulated in Europe by CySEC as a CIF. The broker was known for attacking clients with misleading marketing campaigns and offshore structures. As a result, the FCA banned BDSwiss, and CySEC also imposed penalties. Consequently, BDSwiss has left the EU and CySEC and is now only regulated by FSA Seychelles. We are upgrading BDSwiss to our Red Compliance List.

BDSwiss, the CySEC broker controlled by German entrepreneur Jan Malkus, has attracted attention in recent years mainly due to its illegal offshore broker activities and regulatory violations. The UK FCA has banned BDSwiss from the UK market in 2021 because of this. The broker has launched a PR campaign with articles on Finance Magnates and Finance Feeds celebrating itself. Let's remain skeptical.

German entrepreneur Jan Malkus is the beneficial owner behind CySEC-regulated BDSwiss, which has recently faced massive regulatory difficulties in various jurisdictions. Malkus controls the BDSwiss Group through Cyprus-based Duronga Holdings Ltd. Currently, Duronga is offering a bond that offers investors a repayment of 210% of the capital invested. We have put the bond on our Red Compliance List.

BDSwiss Holding Ltd, the operator of the forex and contracts for differences (CFDs) broker BDSwiss and Viverno, has been fined €100,000 by the CySEC for lapses in complying with initial margin and risk warning requirements during 2021. The penalty was imposed because BDSwiss enabled mislead clients of its offshore broker scheme to believe they were dealing with the CySEC-licensed firm. The German Jan Malkus controls the BDSwiss Group of companies.

The CySEC-regulated investment firm BDSwiss has appointed Christos Fylaktou as the Regional Head of Business Development for its African operations. Before joining BDSwiss, he had a three-year tenure as s senior business development executive for the Africa region at HFM, previously known as HotForex. Fylaktou will work in BDSwiss offices in Cyprus.

As reported by Fintelegram, BDSwiss had a difficult 2022 with regulatory investigations due to its offshore activities. Thus, the CySEC-regulated broker hired new management, closed down the BDSwiss brand, and launched the new brand viverno. Natale Mastoroudes, the HR Head at BDSwiss, is leaving her Cyprus-based role at the broker. She has not been in this role for too long, only a bit over 7 months.

Marc Suárez joined the CySEC-regulated broker BDSwiss in December 2021. He has been appointed LATAM Marketing Manager to support...

All new at BDSwiss Group. The German investor Jan Eric Malkus controls the German Cyprus broker scheme. FinTelegram recently reported on the restructuring of domains and operations at BDSwiss with its new Viverno scheme. A new Chief Commercial Officer (COO) was appointed in February 2023: Andreas Andreou, the former Head of Business Development at HF Markets’ subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced his appointment on Twitter this week.

2022 was for sure a difficult year for the BDSwiss scheme. For a few months in Q2 and Q3 2022, the CySEC-regulated German BDSwiss has not been accepting new clients. In March 2022, the German BaFin launched investigations against the offshore broker BDS Markets. In May 2022, the FCA banned BDSwiss from the UK due to its offshore activities. Our review today found that the CySEC-approved domains BDSwiss.com and EU.BDSwiss.com have been terminated. Here is an update.

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.

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