Parlance Trading Ltd
No licence recorded for this entity.
Alpari is a forex and CFD brand that says it was founded in 1998. Its website, alpari.com, is run by Parlance Trading Ltd, formerly Alpari (Comoros) Ltd, a company on the Comoros island of Mohéli that says it is licensed by the Mwali International Services Authority, a body the Central Bank of the Comoros calls a fictitious structure. Until 2022 alpari.com was run by Alpari Limited of St Vincent and the Grenadines, and until at least December 2024 alpari.org presented “Alpari International” as a business name of Exinity Limited in Mauritius. Other companies have used the Alpari name, including Alpari (UK) Limited, which failed in 2015; they are not covered here.
Research-based assessment This profile has not completed TTI’s on-site verification and 30-day platform review. How TTI verification works
We have not verified any of this firm’s licences on a regulator’s register yet. Licences the firm claims are listed under Regulation and legal entities, with what we could check.
Alpari’s only current company, Parlance Trading Ltd, holds no licence from a recognised financial regulator: its licence comes from the Mwali International Services Authority, which the Central Bank of the Comoros calls a fictitious structure, yet the site calls Alpari a regulated and globally licensed broker. The client agreement says client funds are kept separately from the company’s own, but names no bank, no compensation scheme applies, and the terms make clients liable for negative balances after a stop out. Alpari left the Financial Commission in January 2024, so its clients have no independent dispute body. Alpari does not say who owns the company and publishes no directors or financial statements. Alpari is on Indian, Malaysian and Russian lists of unauthorised firms, Spain’s CNMV has warned against it twice, and Indonesia’s Bappebti has blocked its websites.
The footer, client agreement, risk disclosure and privacy policy consistently name Parlance Trading Ltd, its registration number and licence number as the company that provides Alpari’s services. The authority they name is not a recognised regulator, which we assess under the accuracy of claims.
Parlance Trading Ltd’s full name, registration number and registered address are published, together with a copy of its certificate.
Complaints are made through a form in the client dashboard, or a claims request on the contact page, within five working days of the event and are considered within five business days, although several kinds of complaint are not accepted.
The client agreement, terms of business and non-trading regulations can be read without opening an account.
Maximum leverage, margin call and stop out levels are published for each account type, with a rate card by notional value and lower leverage before weekends and holidays.
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2 points (low severity, 0.9 years before the review).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 5.4 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 4.8 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 0.5 points (low severity, 6.8 years before the review, counted at a quarter of its weight).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 0.5 points (low severity, 6 years before the review, counted at a quarter of its weight).
Each dimension is scored from its criteria, then weighted. Dimensions without enough evidence are left out and the remaining weights are rescaled. Open a dimension to see every criterion, our rationale and the sources.
Whether the firm’s licences exist, are current and cover what it offers.
Client-facing entities appear on the regulator’s register 123
Parlance Trading Ltd, the only company alpari.com names, is not on the register of a recognised financial regulator. Its licence comes from the Mwali International Services Authority, which the Central Bank of the Comoros lists among fictitious structures claiming to issue financial licences.
Clients can tell which regulated entity serves them 1789
The footer, client agreement, risk disclosure and privacy policy consistently name Parlance Trading Ltd, its registration number and licence number as the company that provides Alpari’s services. The authority they name is not a recognised regulator, which we assess under the accuracy of claims.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Whether you can find out who owns and runs the firm.
Ultimate ownership can be identified 9101112
Alpari does not say who owns Parlance Trading Ltd, and we found no registry that does. Until December 2024 alpari.org presented Alpari International as a business name of Exinity Limited, and Alpari left the Financial Commission together with FXTM in 2024, but neither record says who owns the current company. GLEIF names no parent for the former St Vincent company.
Financial statements are available 14
We found no financial statements or capital disclosures for Parlance Trading Ltd.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
What protects client money if something goes wrong.
Client money segregation is disclosed 7
The client agreement says client funds are held in the company’s accounts, “including segregated accounts opened in our name on your behalf”, separately from its own funds, but it names no bank and no recognised regulator oversees how the money is held.
Retail clients have negative balance protection 715
The terms of business make clients liable for a negative balance left by a stop out and let the company take it from their other accounts; the client agreement waives this only where rules applicable to the company require negative balance protection, and none does.
Banking and custody arrangements are disclosed 7
Alpari does not name the banks or payment providers that hold client money.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Regulator warnings, enforcement actions and final legal findings on record.
Starts at 100 and loses points for each substantiated adverse finding by severity and age. Allegations, complaints and clone warnings never count. Total deducted: 5 points.
Named on the Reserve Bank of India’s alert list of unauthorised forex platforms 18
19 Nov 2025. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2 points (low severity, 0.9 years before the review).
Listed by the Bank of Russia among entities with signs of illegal activity in the financial market 20
1 Jun 2021. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 5.4 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
How the firm handles complaints, and what independent records show.
Independent dispute resolution is available 371216
Unresolved disputes may only go to the complaints policy of the Mwali International Services Authority, which the Central Bank of the Comoros calls a fictitious structure and which is not an independent dispute body. Alpari withdrew from the Financial Commission on 27 January 2024.
Independent complaint outcomes show no adverse pattern
We found no published ombudsman or dispute-body decisions about Parlance Trading Ltd.
Complaint data is disclosed 1
We found no complaint statistics published by Alpari or by a regulator or dispute body for its company.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Whether costs, execution and risks are disclosed before you sign up.
Costs are disclosed before account opening 46725
Spreads and commissions are published for each account, along with the inactivity fee and the charge on withdrawals without trading, but deposit and withdrawal fees and conversion rates are shown only in MyAlpari, and charges may change without prior notice.
An order execution policy is published 71415
The terms of business describe how orders are executed using prices from unnamed liquidity providers, and the client agreement says the company may act as principal and refers to a conflicts policy on its website, but no conflicts or execution policy is among the published documents and no counterparties are named.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Whether public claims hold up and the firm communicates openly.
Marketing claims are accurate and attributable 1345627
Alpari presents itself as a regulated and globally licensed broker on the strength of a Mwali licence. Its claims of more than 1 million clients and of being award-winning are not attributed to a source on the pages we read, and the account comparison table shows a placeholder heading.
Material changes are communicated 7121728
Documents are dated (client agreement 5 November 2024, terms of business October 2024, non-trading regulations 3 April 2026), but amendments take effect as soon as notice is deemed served, one hour after a website notice, and we found no notice to clients of the change of company name to Parlance Trading Ltd or of the withdrawal from the Financial Commission.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
What our visit confirmed in person: a real, staffed office of the assessed entity, not a ghost address.
We have not checked this firm’s office in person, so this dimension scores zero. We check offices through our on-site verification programme.
Real office at the stated address, not a ghost address
Office of the assessed entity
Staffed and operating
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
What our on-site checks and 30-day platform testing found.
We have not completed an on-site assessment of this firm, so this dimension does not count and its weight is shared among the others.
Company identity
Regulatory claims
Office visit
Account opening
Platform usability
Costs and disclosures
Customer support
Deposits and withdrawals
Trading functions
Complaints process
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
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The Reserve Bank of India’s Alert List, updated as on 19 November 2025, includes Alpari (https://alpari.com) among entities that are neither authorised to deal in forex under the Foreign Exchange Management Act nor authorised to operate a forex trading platform in India. The list warns residents but does not allege fraud.
The CNMV warned on 27 December 2021 that Alpari Limited (alpari.com/es) and on 3 November 2020 that Alpari International and Exinity Limited (alpari.org/es) were not authorised to provide investment services, including foreign currency transactions, in Spain. We record the two warnings as one finding dated by the later one. Both were still in the CNMV’s list on 26 October 2026.
The Bank of Russia’s list of entities with detected signs of illegal activities in the financial market includes “Alpari Limited, Parlance Trading Ltd”, added on 1 June 2021, for signs of an illegal professional securities market participant, with websites including alpari.com and alpari.ru. The entry was last updated on 15 October 2026 and was current on 26 October 2026.
Bappebti, Indonesia’s Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency, announced on 15 October 2020 that in September 2020 it had blocked five sites listed under the name Alpari as unlicensed futures trading sites, among them alpari.forex, which then carried Alpari Limited’s footer. In August 2021 it blocked a further site listed as Alpari, indonesiaalpari.com, which we have not linked to the business.
The Securities Commission Malaysia’s Investor Alert List includes “Alpari International / Alpari Trading Malaysia” (www.alpari.org, then run by Exinity Limited under the Alpari International name) for dealing in securities and derivatives without a licence. The list records the entry under the year 2020 without a specific date; we use 1 January 2020. The entry was still on the list when we checked on 26 October 2026.
Firms can respond to their profile and to any finding. No response has been published for Alpari. How firms can respond.
| Review date | Result | Methodology | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Trust score 42 out of 100 Weak | 1.2 | Current |
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The footer says Alpari is the trading name of Parlance Trading Ltd, Bonovo Road, Fomboni, Island of Mohéli, Comoros Union, incorporated under registered number HY00423015 and licensed by the Mwali International Services Authority as an International Brokerage and Clearing Company under number T2023236, and that Alpari does not serve residents of the USA, Japan, Canada, North Korea, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Myanmar, Azerbaijan, Syria, Sudan and Cuba. The page advertises more than 25 years of experience, “more than 1 million clients worldwide”, spreads from 0.0, “Fuss-free withdrawals”, an “Award-winning forex and CFDs broker” and a 100% welcome bonus of up to $500, gives a UK helpline (+44 2045 771 951) and the Mohéli address, and carries the general warning “Trading is risky. Your capital is at risk.” alpari.org and alpari.ru redirect to this site.
A certificate published on Alpari’s documents page, headed Mwali International Services Authority, International Business Companies Act 2014 and Brokerage Act 2013: Parlance Trading Ltd, registered number HY00423015, licence number T2023236, date of issue 12 April 2023, authorised capital USD 250,000, registered office Bonovo Road, Fomboni, sealed on 29 May 2025 by the Registrar of Brokerage Companies. It names no directors or shareholders.
Communiqué of 15 June 2022: the Central Bank of the Comoros warns the public about fictitious structures that claim to issue licences to banks and financial institutions in the Union of the Comoros, naming first the Mwali International Services Authority (M.I.S.A, mwaliregistrar.com), and says the licensing of banks and financial institutions in the Comoros is its exclusive remit and that it has referred these so-called authorities and the offshore entities they licensed to the prosecutors of Moroni, Mutsamudu and Mohéli. The document is a scan; we read it with text recognition.
Compares the Micro, Standard, ECN and Pro ECN accounts: minimum deposits of $30, $100, $300 and $500; no commission except on Pro ECN ($2.5 per lot on forex and set rates on other instruments); spreads from 1.2, 1.2, 0.8 and 0.0 pips; leverage up to 1:500, 1:1000, 1:3000 and 1:3000; margin call at 50%, 50%, 80% and 80% and stop out at 20%, 20%, 50% and 50%. The comparison table’s heading cell reads “XXXX”.
Says Alpari was founded in 1998 and “is a regulated provider serving more than 1 million clients worldwide”, offering “the security of being a leading, trusted, and regulated global trading broker”, and that “We are proud to be licensed by the Mwali International Services Authority (MISA) as an International Brokerage and Clearing Company under number T2023236”, with a link to mwaliregistrar.com. It names no owners, directors or managers.
Says “We’re a globally licensed entity”, that deposits are processed instantly unless extra verification is needed and back-office transfers are processed on weekdays from 06:00 to 20:00 (GMT+2) and on Sundays. After three months without trading an inactivity fee of 10 EUR, USD or GBP is charged every month until the balance is used up, and withdrawals after no trading may be charged the bank fees incurred or 3% of the amount. Deposit and withdrawal fees, processing times and conversion rates for each method are shown in MyAlpari after login. Initial deposits must be withdrawn to the source they came from.
Schedule 1 defines the company as Parlance Trading Ltd, licensed by the Mwali International Services Authority under licence T2023236, registration number HY00423015, Bonovo Road, Fomboni, “and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates”. Client funds “are held in our accounts, including segregated accounts opened in our name on your behalf”, separate from the company’s own funds; no bank is named. Clients must pay any amount exceeding their balance within two business days “other than where negative balance protection exists under Applicable Regulation”. The company may be on the other side of client trades as principal and refers to a conflicts policy “on our Website”. Commissions and charges may change without prior notice; amendments take effect as soon as written notice is deemed served, which for a website notice is one hour after posting. Complaints go through a form in the client dashboard within five working days of the event and are considered within five business days; several kinds of complaint are not accepted. Comoros law applies, and unresolved disputes may be taken to the complaints policy of the Mwali International Services Authority.
A disclosure by Parlance Trading Ltd, which provides the myAlpari service, of the risks of trading on margin; it recommends keeping the margin level no lower than 1,000% and using stop loss orders.
Names Parlance Trading Ltd (“the Company” or “Alpari”), registration number HY00423015 and MISA licence T2023236, and says personal information may be shared with “Group companies”, which it does not name.
An Internet Archive copy taken on 3 December 2024, used only as a historical record. The footer says “ALPARI INTERNATIONAL is the business name of Exinity Limited which is regulated by the Financial Services Commission of the Republic of Mauritius with an Investment Dealer License bearing license number C113012295”, and that card payments were processed by FT Global Services Ltd and Exinity Services Ltd in Nicosia. Copies from December 2020 to December 2024 carry the same statement; from January 2025 the archive records alpari.org redirecting, and today it redirects to alpari.com.
Records ALPARI LIMITED, registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines as 20389 IBC 2012 on 16 May 2012, care of Wilfred Services Ltd, Suite 305, Griffith Corporate Centre, Kingstown. The LEI lapsed on 24 October 2023. For its parents the record gives the reporting exception that the parent does not consolidate it, without naming the parent. GLEIF has no record for Parlance Trading Ltd.
Announces on 6 February 2024 that the memberships of Alpari and FXTM ceased on 27 January 2024 following a voluntary withdrawal, so the Commission can no longer process new complaints from their traders and their clients are not eligible for its compensation fund.
An Internet Archive copy taken on 1 July 2022, used only as a historical record. The footer names Alpari Limited, Suite 305, Griffith Corporate Centre, Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines, registered number 20389 IBC 2012, as the company behind alpari.com, says Alpari is a member of the Financial Commission and that Alpari Limited does not serve residents of the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, North Korea, the EU and the UK. Copies from 2016 to 2021 give the same company and number; a March 2015 copy names Alpari Limited of Kingstown without a legible number.
Lists, without an account, the privacy policy, client agreement, risk disclosure, cookie policy, terms of business, regulations for non-trading operations and promotion terms, and links the MISA licence certificate under the registration number HY00423015. No conflicts of interest or execution policy and no financial statements are published.
Describes quotes based on prices from unnamed liquidity providers, order execution under normal and abnormal market conditions and the stop out procedure. Clause 6.6: if a stop out leaves a negative balance, “the Client shall be liable for this loss and must make a payment of the full and total amount due immediately”, and the company may take it from the client’s other accounts. Leverage may be changed without notice in abnormal markets, emergencies or force majeure, and stop out and margin call levels may be changed before the Friday close.
Says Alpari is no longer a member, its membership having been withdrawn in February 2024; complaints against Alpari can no longer be filed with the Financial Commission and its clients are not covered by the Commission’s compensation fund.
Sets out the procedures for deposits, withdrawals and transfers on client accounts with Parlance Trading Ltd: commissions for each method are published in myAlpari and on the website and may change, internal transfers are processed within one business day, and clients may ask for an inquiry into transfers not received within five business days.
Lists entities not authorised to deal in forex or operate forex trading platforms in India. Entry 1 is Alpari, https://alpari.com.
Checked on 26 October 2026. Includes an entry dated 2020 for “Alpari International / Alpari Trading Malaysia”, with the website www.alpari.org and an address in Bayan Lepas, Penang, for carrying on capital market activities of dealing in securities and derivatives without a licence.
Lists “Alpari Limited, Parlance Trading Ltd”, at C/O Wilfred Services Ltd, Suite 305, Griffith Corporate Centre, Kingstown, as showing signs of an illegal professional securities market participant, added on 1 June 2021 and last updated on 15 October 2026, with websites including alpari.com, alpari.ru, alpari.forex and trade.alpari.com. We also downloaded the full list on 26 October 2026; the entry was not marked closed.
Returns two warnings: Alpari Limited (https://alpari.com/es/), 27 December 2021, and Alpari International (www.alpari.org/es), 3 November 2020.
Press release of 15 October 2020: during September 2020 Bappebti blocked 137 domains and Facebook pages of futures trading entities without its licence. Its list includes five entries named “Alpari”: alpari.forex, idalpari.org, alparipartners.org, pammindonesia.com and alpari-zh.com.
On 26 October 2026 we searched CySEC’s 1,173 board decisions and its latest announcements (to 16 October 2026), the FCA’s list of investment firms, ASIC’s licensee data, the FSA Seychelles register, the CVM’s declaratory acts (downloaded 26 October 2026, acts to May 2026), KNF’s lists, the Reserve Bank of India’s alert list, Bank Negara Malaysia’s and the Securities Commission Malaysia’s alert lists, the Japan FSA’s list of warned unregistered firms (updated 23 October 2026), the CNMV’s warnings, the AMF’s blacklist (open data export of 26 October 2026), the Bank of Russia’s list, the NSSMC’s list, Bappebti’s blocking lists and Consob’s notices for Alpari, Parlance Trading, Exinity and alpari.com, and ran web searches for other regulators. We found the records on this profile. Bank Negara Malaysia lists “Alpari (Asian) Ltd” (21 May 2014) with no website; we have not linked it to this business and it is more than ten years old. The FCA’s page for a 2022 warning about “Alpari Limited” now shows “Page not found” and has no archived copy, so we could not read it.
Offers a contact form with request types including a claims request and says a team member will reply within 24 hours. The page gives no email address; the help centre gives the UK phone number and a chatbot.
Explains spreads, commissions and swaps and says the ECN MT4, Standard MT4 and MT5 accounts are commission-free.
Publishes a rate card of leverage and margin by notional value (for example 1:3000 and 0.03% margin on the first tier of major currency pairs, falling to 1:500 above USD 200,000) and explains that dynamic margin requirements cut maximum leverage from 1:3000 to 1:200 from two hours before weekend and holiday market closures.
Says Alpari has received “numerous industry awards” and has year tabs from 2021 to 2026, but the page text we retrieved names no award or awarding body.
An Internet Archive copy taken on 1 July 2024, used only as a historical record. The footer names Alpari (Comoros) Ltd, Bonovo Road, Fomboni, registered number HY00423015, licensed by the Mwali International Services Authority under licence T2023236: the same numbers that alpari.com now gives for Parlance Trading Ltd. A copy of July 2023 shows the same footer.
Warns that https://alpari.com/es/ and ALPARI LIMITED are not authorised to provide investment services, including investment advice and foreign currency transactions, in Spain.
Warns that www.alpari.org/es, ALPARI INTERNATIONAL and EXINITY LIMITED are not authorised to provide investment services, including investment advice and foreign currency transactions, in Spain.
An Internet Archive copy taken on 1 January 2021, used only as a historical record. The site carries the Alpari Limited (St Vincent, 20389 IBC 2012) footer and says it is operated by AI Accept Solutions Limited of London, a subsidiary of Alpari Limited.
Press release of 18 September 2021: in August 2021 Bappebti blocked 249 domains of futures trading websites without its licence. The list includes “Alpari” at www.indonesiaalpari.com/id.
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