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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.

Jan Eric Malkus is a German entrepreneur and investor who has made a name for himself as an investor in the financial sector, among other things. He is considered the founder of the BDSwiss Group and is still its dominant shareholder through his Cypriot Duronga Holdings GmbH. He is a director in the CySEC-regulated BDSwiss Holding Limited and in its parent company BDSwiss AG in Switzerland. Malkus manages the investments through his investment firms, Vastani and Ventura Investment AG.

In May 2022, FinTelegram reported about the 2020-plans of BDSwiss to establish BaFin-listed Unleashed Capital Bank (ULC). Back then,...

Since Mid-April 2022, the CySEC-regulated German BDSwiss has not been accepting new clients. We have been following the activities of the CySEC-regulated BDSwiss and have reported extensively on their offshore onboarding. We have been threatened several times by their Compliance and Legal Departments for doing so. In our re-check on 1 June 2022, we learned that the BDSwiss website continues to inform visitors that no new clients are accepted until further notice. Moreover, former director Catalina Pantea informed us that she resigned in Jan 2022 and has no clue about the current state of affairs.