Multi-asset broker Fortrade, headquartered in London, recently faced the revocation of its authorization in the Republic of Belarus, marking the end of a licensing period that lasted for five and a half years. The regulatory registry in Belarus reported the withdrawal of Fortrade's authorization, with no details given. As reported by FinTelegram Fortrade, it transferred its Belarus business to Mauritius after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) formally initiated the investigation into Fortrade Canada Limited's conduct in August 2021. Following an application made with a notice on November 9, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario, a Hearing Panel IIROC granted a temporary order in the matter of Fortrade Canada Limited. FinTelegram has been reporting about the ForTrade activities over the last two years!Â
ForTrade is a broker brand operated by legal entities licensed by various recognized regulators such as the UK FCA, the Cypriot CySEC, or the Australian ASIC. In addition, the ForTrade Group runs offshore entities in Belarus and Mauritius, as FinTelegram has already outlined. BaFin issued a warning against Invest365 and LLC Fort Securities BLR in March 2022. On March 16, 2022, BaFin updated the warning after discussions with ForTrade and outlined that ForTrade Group would not involved in the Invest365 scam, but it would be a case of identity theft. Here is the update!
FinTelegram has reported the apparent cooperation between the two broker schemes, Alpari and Fortrade. In particular, we have drawn attention several times to the Russian site GloryFT which, according to the website, was operated by the CySEC-regulated Fortrade and the Russian-licensed Alpari. In our reviews, after registering with GloryFT, we were immediately redirected to the website of CySEC-regulated ForTrade Cyprus Ltd to complete the registration. We were greeted by an email from ForTrade. The website has now disappeared with a 404 error message.
LLC Fort Securities BLR is one of the offshore brokers of the Fortrade Group. It is licensed by the National Bank of Belarus (NBRB) and used to the now-vanished FX Trade Premium. The UK FCA issued a warning against this illegal broker (report here). Recently, the German BaFin has announced an investigation against this Belarusian entity, and its now-vanished Invest365. Amid the Russian invasion in the Ukraine ForTrade transfers its Belarus activities to Fortrade Mauritius Ltd, the group informed.
LLC "Fort Securities BLR" is the offshore broker operator of the Fortrade Group. It is registered and licensed in Belarus. It used to be the operating entity behind the now-vanished FX Trade Premium, against which the UK FCA issued a warning. BaFin has announced an investigation against this Belarusian entity and its Invest365. We have already exposed Fortrade's non-compliant offshore broker activities and their connections to the Russian Alpari Group and the FCA- and CySEC-regulated ForexTime Group.
Recently we reported that an investor warning issued by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) against TorexFX (https://torexfx.com) was incorrect. The FCA claimed that TorexFX and the domains associated with this scam https://gloryft.com and https://fxen.gloryft.com as illegally acting clones of the FCA and CySEC regulated broker ForTrade. In fact, however, these sites are jointly operated by ForTrade and the Russian broker Alpari. Both brokers have a vast network of entities, domains, and websites. We want to learn more about them and their activities.
The UK FCA issued an interesting and incorrect investor warning today. The UK regulator warns against the TorexFX, an allegedly unauthorized clone of the FCA and CySEC regulated broker ForTrade. The domains mentioned in the warning are https://torexfx.com, https://gloryft.com, and https://fxen.gloryft.com. The GloryFT domains are operated by the Russian Alpari Broker LLC and the FCA-regulated ForTrade Limited. Thus, the FCA has not recognized that an FCA-regulated entity conducts allegedly "unauthorized" activities.
The FCA issued an investor warning against the scam broker FXTradePremium on 20 August 2020. According to the information on the website, the scam is operated in Minsk via the Fort Securities LLC registered in Belarus with registration number 193075810. This is actually one of the companies of the CySEC regulated investment company ForTrade Cyprus Ltd (CIF No 385/20).