Tag: HBC Markets

The Italian watchdog Consob is currently the only financial market regulator known to us that has the legal authority to order internet providers to black-out of illegal financial sites. The legal basis for this is the "Growth Decree" law passed in June 2019. So far Consob has already blocked 335 websites for the Italian market. Almost all blocked sites offer illegal broker services.

The Austrian Financial Market Authority FMA has recently issued several investor warnings. Specifically, the FMA warns against the broker scams Tradixa, GFXRoyal (GFX Finance), HBC Market (HBC Markets), and BSB Global. The FinTelegram Research Team has looked at the special features of these scams. And this is what we found: