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In April 2022, FinTelegram recently updated its review of PU Prime, an offshore broker regulated by the FSA Seychelles. We included the broker in our Red Compliance list. Despite lacking the necessary regulatory authorizations, this broker offers financial products to clients in the UK and EEA. On May 10, 2023, the UK regulator FCA issued a warning regarding PU Prime. The CySEC-regulated Pacific Union Group Ltd informed that it would not be part of the offshore broker scheme.

For regular readers of FinTelegram, it is no secret that we put a special focus on offshore broker activities in our market monitoring. An efficient way to detect unauthorized offshore brokers is to follow fraudulent marketing campaigns and fake review sites. A fake review site led us to Pacific Union Group a/k/a PU PRIME which acquires clients worldwide. While we do not deem PU Prime as a scam, we established that they offer their regulated financial services unauthorized in Europe and most other regulatory regim