A trading brand is easy to build and hard to verify. The website takes an afternoon, the advertisement takes a budget, and neither of them leaves a trace in a place anyone can inspect. What does leave a trace is supervision: an authorisation, the services it covers, the countries it covers, a notice when an authority decides the public should be told something. That trace is public, it is searchable, and it is the only part of the story that was written by somebody other than the seller.
This desk reads that trace and writes down what it says. When a name is in a register, we say which register and what the entry permits. When a name is on a warning list, we say which authority published it and when. When neither is true, we say that too, with the date of the search, because an absence recorded honestly is worth more than a paragraph of confident prose.
What a file contains
Every file on this site follows the same route through the same questions: what the operator claims in its own words, what the authorisation registers return, whether any European authority has published a notice, whether the familiar imitations of a licence are in play, where client money would have to sit if the service were supervised, what to do when a withdrawal stalls, and how to repeat all of it yourself. The last section is the point of the exercise. We would rather teach the search than be believed.
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What this site is not
It is not a law firm, it is not an adviser, and it does not sell access to anything. Nothing here is legal advice or investment advice, and no file should be read as permission to send money anywhere. A blank register result is not a reassurance and an entry that looks right is not a recommendation: both are starting points for a decision that stays yours.
Our sources page lists the databases we search and the order we search them in. If you hold a document that names a company behind one of these brands, the contact page explains how to send it.