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Spanish Watchdog Warns Against Focus Markets and Place-a-Trade Broker

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The Spanish regulator CNMV has issued a warning against the offshore broker Focus Markets LLC, St. Vincent & The Grenadine, d/b/a Place-a-Trade. While the website names this offshore entity as its owner and operator, the Client Agreement presents the ASIC-regulated Australian Focus Markets Pty Ltd as the contracting partner. In this Client Agreement, Eightcap is also named. The Focus Markets Group also operates the offshore broker schemes AnzoFX and AnzoCapital. Here is a research update.

Spanish Regulator Warns Against Seven Illegal Financial Websites!

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The Spanish regulator CNMV issued seven new warnings against websites offering regulated financial products without permission. Some of the warned scams and their operators like the unauthorized offshore broker Focus Markets LLC d/b/a Place-a-Trade or the Immediate Edge fraud campaign we know and have issued warnings in the past. We will take a closer look at the other warnings and bring detailed reports soon. It is always interesting for our research team to compare the regulators’ findings with ours. Below is the list of new warnings.

The offshore activities of CySEC-regulated Eightcap!

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Until Aug 2021, the CySEC-regulated investment firm (CIF) Eightcap EU Ltd was called R Capital Solutions Ltd and was the owner and the operator of MXTrade until 2015. Then the broker was transferred to the infamous Lau Scheme in Belize. However! Now Eightcap operates the CySEC approved domain www.eightcap.eu. Besides, as usual with many CySEC CIFs, offshore broker activities are conducted through www.eightcap.com and Eightcap Global Limited in the Bahamas.

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