Tag: OnspotBNK

Last week DB Investing trumpeted a “strategic partnership” with KYC vendor Sumsub. In reality, adding an off-the-shelf AML tool is hardly headline material; hundreds of brokers do it every day. The publicity blast looked less like real news and more like image-laundering for a man whose broker stable has ping-ponged across regulators, shells and continents for nearly two decades.

OnspotBNK has been on our radar since 2022. We found that the unauthorized offshore broker cooperated with FCA-regulated broker One Financial Markets. Since then, financial market regulators from several regulatory regimes, such as Italy's Consob and Spain's CNMV, have warned against OnspotBNK. The offshore broker has changed domains several times but is now likely to have disappeared for good. A successor will surely appear soon.

We brought our initial review of broker scheme One Financial Markets (OFM) in May 2022 and a brief update in October. OFM is a brand alongside AXI, with which the Australian AXI Group is active. AXI Group has regulatory permission from the UK FCA and South Africa's FSCA. However, the offshore mutations of OFM and AXI are operated by an entity in St. Vincent & The Grenadines. We have added AXI Group to our Orange Compliance list.

OnspotBNK is a black-listed offshore broker and scam active with various legal entities and domains in various jurisdictions. Currently, the website with the new domain Onspotcap.com indicates ONS Financieel Advies & Coaching B.V., registered and licensed in Holland as the owner. We have not found a valid license. The Italien Consob warned against the offshore broker, as did the Alberta Securities Commission in Canada. Stay far away and protect your financial health.

On 21 July 2023, the Italian regulator Consob ordered four illegal financial websites to be blacked out. The total number of black-out orders increase to 927. The Italian financial watchdog has the authority to order ISPs to inhibit access from Italy to illegal financial websites. So far, the Italian regulator is, unfortunately, the only one in Europe with this authority. Below are the websites Consob has ordered to be blacked out:

As reported by FinTelegram, over the past few years, financial market regulators have warned several times about the unauthorized NewFX broker scheme. A few days ago, the Italian Consob also blocked NewFX's websites for Italian consumers. the active domain is www.newfxtrading.com. NewFX is connected to other offshore brokers, such as DBFX or OnspotBNK, and the FCA-regulated One Financial Markets. We included the broker in our "Red Compliance" list!

OnspotBNK is an offshore broker and a scam. OnspotBNK Limited, allegedly regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC) with license number 40133/17, would be the operator. However, we have found neither the license number nor the company in the register of the VFSC. Instead, we found that the DubaiFXM and DBFX brokers are connected. The same perpetrators are behind these schemes and many more. We found Jubiter, a/k/a CoindDeck, as the facilitating payment processor. Stay very far away and protect your money.

Israeli-Cyprus BridgerPay of Ran Cohen recently announced the successful completion of $6 million in seed funding with Southern Israel Bridging Fund (SIBF), touting its smart payment gateway. Among other things, this would also detect fraud and ensure that credit card payment rejection rates would drop dramatically. Well, the BridgerPay intelligent software evidently failed to detect the ICorp Securities broker scam and thus facilitates it happily. The Spanish CNMV recently issued a warning against it.

the Spanish CNMV and other EU regulators issued investor warnings against the unauthorized offshore broker NewFX. Upon our report, NewFX changed its operating entity and domain. Currently, the operator allegedly is New Finance LLC, registered in Delaware; the active domain is www.newfx.us. NewFX is connected to other offshore brokers such as DBFX or OnspotBNK and to the FCA-regulated One Financial Markets. In our new review on 3 May 2022, we found Praxis Cashier as one of the facilitating payment processors.

FinTelegram reviewers noticed that the websites of the offshore brokers DBFX, NewFX, or OnspotBNK load their content from www.onefinancialmarkets.com, which belongs to the FCA-regulated One Financial Markets broker. Financial regulators have warned against these offshore brokers. So we took a closed look at this FCA-regulated broker and found out that it also offers potential customers from the UK and the EU leverage of up to 1:500 via offshore onboarding. Here is our initial review on OneFinancialMarktes and the AXI Group.