AMarkets LLC
No licence recorded for this entity.
AMarkets is a forex and CFD brand that says it has served clients since 2007, mainly in Asia, Latin America and the CIS. Its customer agreement and other legal documents name AMarkets LLC, registered in the Cook Islands, as the company clients deal with. Its website also names AMarkets LTD in St Vincent and the Grenadines and an AMarkets LTD on the Comoros island of Mwali, which it says is licensed by the Mwali International Services Authority, a body the Central Bank of the Comoros calls a fictitious structure. We found no licence from a recognised financial regulator for any of the three companies.
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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.
None of the three companies AMarkets names holds a licence from a recognised financial regulator. The contracting company, AMarkets LLC, is registered in the Cook Islands, the St Vincent company is registered with an authority that does not license forex brokers, and the Mwali “licence” comes from a body the Central Bank of the Comoros calls a fictitious structure. AMarkets’ terms say client money is kept in the company’s own bank accounts and let it commingle and reuse cash in client accounts; no compensation scheme applies, and its negative balance promise in the trading regulations sits beside customer agreement terms that hold clients liable for deficits. Clients can take disputes to the Financial Commission, a member since 2013. AMarkets publishes no owners, managers or financial statements. Italy’s Consob ordered Amarkets Ltd to stop serving Italian investors and blacked out amarkets.com in 2021, Indonesia’s Bappebti has blocked its websites, and it is on Malaysian, Russian and Ukrainian lists of unauthorised firms.
The customer agreement and trading regulations send unresolved disputes to the Financial Commission, which lists AMarkets as an active member since 1 September 2013, although its page does not say which AMarkets company is the member.
The trading regulations require complaints by email to support@amarkets.com within three business days of the dispute and say they are considered within five business days, although AMarkets may reject late or incomplete complaints.
The customer agreement, trading regulations and other terms can be read without opening an account.
Leverage tiers up to 1:3000 by equity and instrument, the limits around news and weekends, and stop out levels of 20% (Standard) and 40% (ECN and Zero) are published; the agreement says AMarkets does not make margin calls in the ordinary course.
Every page carries a risk warning that clients may lose some or all of their investment, a separate risk warning document is published, and no regulator of the companies requires the share of losing accounts.
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 5 points (moderate severity, 4.9 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2 points (low severity, 2.8 years before the review).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 3.3 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 4.9 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 3.8 years before the review, counted at half weight).
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Whether the firm’s licences exist, are current and cover what it offers.
Client-facing entities appear on the regulator’s register 1234
None of the three companies AMarkets names appears on the register of a recognised financial regulator. Its Mwali licence comes from the Mwali International Services Authority, which the Central Bank of the Comoros lists among fictitious structures claiming to issue financial licences, and the Cook Islands and St Vincent entries are company registrations; St Vincent’s FSA says no authority there issues forex licences.
Permissions cover the services offered 156
AMarkets offers CFDs on forex, metals, indices, commodities, stocks and cryptocurrencies with leverage up to 1:3000 without a licence from a recognised regulator covering that business, and Consob found in 2021 that it was providing investment services in Italy without authorisation.
Regulatory claims on the website are accurate 1347
Under the heading “Licenses, regulations and professional memberships” AMarkets says its Mwali company is licensed and supervised by the Mwali International Services Authority, which the Central Bank of the Comoros calls a fictitious structure, and presents Cook Islands and St Vincent company registrations as part of its regulation, although the St Vincent FSA says it does not license or supervise forex businesses. The authority’s abbreviation is also misspelt “MlSA”.
Clients can tell which regulated entity serves them 1678
Every legal document names AMarkets LLC (Cook Islands) as the company clients deal with, but the footer lists three companies under the AMarkets name without saying what the Mwali and St Vincent companies do or which clients they serve. In 2021 the customer agreement named the St Vincent company, according to Consob.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Whether you can find out who owns and runs the firm.
Legal entity details are published 279
The names and registration numbers of the Cook Islands and St Vincent companies and the Mwali licence number are published, but only the Cook Islands company’s address is given; the Mwali company has no registration number or address on the site, and the St Vincent address is available only from GLEIF.
Ultimate ownership can be identified 121011
AMarkets does not say who owns its companies. GLEIF reports no known person controlling the St Vincent company, and the AMarkets trademark is held by TM Box Limited, a dormant UK company whose person with significant control is Alina Malikova, but nothing we read shows who owns the companies that serve clients.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
What protects client money if something goes wrong.
Client money segregation is disclosed 814
The non-trading regulations say clients’ funds are “virtually kept in the Company’s bank accounts”, and the customer agreement lets AMarkets “sell, pledge, rehypothecate, assign, invest, commingle and otherwise use” any collateral it holds, which includes the cash in client accounts. We found no segregation terms.
Retail clients have negative balance protection 5815
The account comparison lists negative balance protection for every account and the trading regulations promise to bring a negative balance after a stop out back to zero, unless AMarkets suspects abuse, but the customer agreement still makes clients liable on demand for deficits after weekend or holiday price gaps and for any shortfall on liquidation.
An investor compensation scheme applies 716
No investor compensation scheme covers AMarkets’ clients. The site says clients are protected by the Financial Commission’s Compensation Fund up to €20,000 per claim, but that fund only pays Financial Commission awards a member fails to pay and does not cover a broker’s insolvency.
Withdrawal terms are disclosed 81417
The customer agreement says withdrawal requests may take up to two business days to process, and the non-trading regulations set the conditions (withdrawal by the deposit method, proportionally where several were used, after verification), but methods, fees and limits are shown only in the Personal Area after login.
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: 10 points.
Listed on the Securities Commission Malaysia Investor Alert List 18
1 Jan 2024. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2 points (low severity, 2.8 years before the review).
Listed by the Bank of Russia among entities with signs of illegal activity in the financial market 19
17 Nov 2021. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 4.9 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.
A complaints procedure is published 15
The trading regulations require complaints by email to support@amarkets.com within three business days of the dispute and say they are considered within five business days, although AMarkets may reject late or incomplete complaints.
Independent complaint outcomes show no adverse pattern
We found no published ombudsman or dispute-body decisions about AMarkets’ companies.
Complaint data is disclosed 23
AMarkets publishes service metrics such as verification and support response times but no complaint statistics, and no regulator or ombudsman publishes complaint figures for its companies.
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 581417
Spreads, commissions and minimum deposits are published for each account, deposits are free and there is no inactivity fee, but withdrawal fees and the internal conversion rate are shown only in the Personal Area, and the customer agreement lets AMarkets change its fees at any time without notice.
An order execution policy is published 81315
The trading regulations describe market execution, quotes from unnamed liquidity providers, slippage and partial fills, but AMarkets publishes no execution or conflicts of interest policy naming its counterparties, and the agreement says AMarkets and its affiliates may execute orders ahead of client orders.
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 1371216
The site presents a Mwali “licence” and company registrations as regulation and says clients’ interests are protected by the Financial Commission’s Compensation Fund, which only pays unpaid awards. The claims of more than 3,000,000 clients and “No dealing desk, no requotes” have no source; awards are attributed to named organisers.
An address and working contact channels are published 29
AMarkets publishes email addresses, a UK information line, Telegram support and a Cook Islands address, but gives no address for the St Vincent or Mwali companies, lists one New Zealand number for its Cook Islands, St Vincent and Comoros offices, and we could not check the Cook Islands address against a registry.
Material changes are communicated 6815
Documents show their last revision dates and amendments to the customer agreement bind clients ten days after notice on the website or by email, but fees and some margin requirements may change without notice, and we found no notice to clients of the change of contracting company from the St Vincent company to AMarkets LLC.
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 Securities Commission Malaysia’s Investor Alert List includes “Amarkets” (www.amarkets.com), in two entries, for carrying on unlicensed capital market activities of dealing in securities. The list records the entries under the year 2024 without a specific date; we use 1 January 2024. The entries were still on the list when we checked on 26 October 2026.
Bappebti, Indonesia’s Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency, blocked AMarkets websites as unlicensed futures trading sites several times: amarkets.com in September 2020, amarkets.org, amarkets.info and amarketsaffiliates.com in January 2021, amarkets.today and amarketsonline.com in August 2021, and, in the first half of 2023, sites listed under the name Amarkets including amarkets.ng, AMarkets’ Nigerian site. Its list for 2024, which gives addresses without names, includes my-amarkets.org and the Facebook page AMarketsAsia. We record these as one finding dated by the press release of 6 July 2023, the latest that names Amarkets.
On 24 January 2023 Ukraine’s National Securities and Stock Market Commission added AMarkets (ua.amarkets.com) to its list of unreliable investment projects operating outside regulation in Ukraine. The entry was still on the list when we checked on 26 October 2026.
By resolution no. 22122 of 16 December 2021 Consob found that Amarkets Ltd, of St Vincent and the Grenadines, was offering CFD trading to Italian investors through www.amarkets.com and its client area my.amarkets.org without authorisation, and ordered the infringement to cease. On 23 December 2021 Consob announced that it had ordered Italian internet providers to black out www.amarkets.com and my.amarkets.org, among 28 unauthorised sites reported by the Guardia di Finanza.
The Bank of Russia’s list of entities with detected signs of illegal activities in the financial market includes “A-MARKETS”, added on 17 November 2021, for signs of an illegal professional securities market participant, with websites including www.amarkets.com and www.amarkets.org. The entry was last updated on 24 July 2026 and was current on 26 October 2026.
Firms can respond to their profile and to any finding. No response has been published for AMarkets. How firms can respond.
| Review date | Result | Methodology | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Trust score 44 out of 100 Weak | 1.2 | Current |
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Says AMarkets is “an international group of companies operating under a single brand name” whose legal structure is designed to ensure the safety of clients’ funds, and repeats the three company statements of the footer under the heading “Licenses, regulations and professional memberships”. It describes AMarkets as a certified member of the Financial Commission, which it says provides a Compensation Fund of up to €20,000 per claim, and says Verify My Trade audits its order execution monthly. It names no directors and does not say how the companies are related or which clients each serves.
Records AMARKETS LTD., registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines as 22567 BC 2015 and created on 2 March 2015, at Beachmont Business Centre 272, Kingstown, VC0100. The LEI was issued in 2017 and lapsed on 21 June 2024. For both its direct and ultimate parent the record states that there is no known person controlling the entity. GLEIF has no record for AMarkets LLC or for the Mwali company.
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.
An archived copy, taken on 16 January 2025, of the FSA’s alert of 23 June 2021: the FSA does not issue licences for forex trading or brokerage and does not regulate, monitor, supervise or license international business companies that engage in it, and no authority in St Vincent and the Grenadines issues forex or brokerage licences. The live page did not load.
Compares the Standard, ECN and Zero accounts: initial deposits of $100, $200 and $200, floating spreads from 1.3, 0.2 and 0 pips, commissions of none, $2.5 and $5.5 per lot per side, market execution, leverage up to 1:3000 on each, stop out levels of 20% (Standard) and 40% (ECN and Zero), and “Negative balance protection: Yes” for all three. Instruments include forex, metals, indices, commodities, about 400 stocks, ETFs and 33 cryptocurrencies.
Consob found that www.amarkets.com, available in Italian, offered trading in CFDs on currencies, shares, commodities, metals, indices and cryptocurrencies through Fixed, Standard and ECN accounts, with a client area at my.amarkets.org; that the footer and the Customer Agreement page named Amarkets Ltd, with its registered address in St Vincent and the Grenadines; and that Amarkets Ltd was not authorised to provide investment services in Italy. It ordered the infringement of article 18 of the Consolidated Law on Finance to cease.
Advertises leverage up to 1:3000, spreads from 0, “Fast-track withdrawals”, “More than 3,000,000 clients worldwide”, “19 years of trust” and, for its platforms, “No dealing desk, no requotes”, and says “The interests of AMarkets’ clients are protected by the Financial Commission’s Compensation Fund for up to €20,000 per claim”. The footer says AMarkets LTD is registered and licensed as an international brokerage and clearing company on the Island of Mwali (Comoros) with licence number T2023284 and supervised by the Mwali International Services Authority (spelt “MlSA”); that AMarkets LLC is registered in the Cook Islands under number LLC14486/2023 in a registry operated by the Financial Supervisory Commission; and that AMarkets LTD is registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines under number 22567 BC 2015 in a registry operated by the Financial Services Authority. It says AMarkets LLC and its affiliates do not target EU, EEA, UK or US clients and carries a general risk warning with no loss percentage. The regional sites amarkets.org (Russian), amarkets.ng, amarketsturkey.com, amarkets.kg and amarkets.uz carry the same company statements.
Governs accounts at AMarkets LLC, registered in the Cook Islands (LLC14486/2023), under Cook Islands law, with disputes to be settled by negotiation and then through the Financial Commission; claims must be brought within 45 days. AMarkets may change margin requirements and its fee structure at any time without notice and may withdraw funds from client accounts without notice. The security clause lets AMarkets “sell, pledge, rehypothecate, assign, invest, commingle and otherwise use any Collateral it holds”, defined to include all cash in client accounts. Clients are liable on demand for deficit balances that result from marking to market after a weekend or holiday and for any shortfall after liquidation, with interest and collection costs. Amendments bind clients ten days after notice on the website or by email, or on their next order. The trading policies annex says withdrawal requests may take up to two business days to process, that AMarkets does not make margin calls in the ordinary course, and that AMarkets, its staff and affiliates may execute orders ahead of client orders.
Lists departmental email addresses (support@amarkets.com and others), Telegram support, a UK information line (+44 330 777 22 22) and regional phone numbers. The only address given is T&F Chambers, Nikao, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The same New Zealand number, +64 98 844 019, is listed for the Cook Islands, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Comoros offices; no address is given for the St Vincent or Mwali companies.
Published on AMarkets’ documents page. The UK Intellectual Property Office certifies that a series of two AMarkets marks was registered under number UK00004200337, effective 8 May 2025 and entered on the register on 1 August 2025, for financial and brokerage services in class 36, in the name of TM Box Limited, company number 16425510.
Incorporated on 2 May 2025, registered office 50 Princes Street, Ipswich, nature of business dormant company; first accounts are due by 2 February 2027. Its only director, Alina Malikova (Kyrgyz, resident in Kyrgyzstan), has been its person with significant control since 2 May 2025, holding 75% or more of the shares and votes.
Says AMarkets provides brokerage services in Latin America, Asia and the CIS. Its timeline from 2007 to 2026 records awards with the names of their organisers (for example Traders Union Awards, PAN Finance, FinanceFeeds and Global Brands Magazine), says AMarkets passed 3,000,000 clients in December 2025 and registered its own trademark in May 2019, and records leverage on ECN accounts rising to 1:3000 in September 2022. It names no owners, directors or managers.
Publishes, without an account, the customer agreement, risk warning, privacy policy, AML policy, personal data terms, regulations on non-trading operations, refund policy and the UK trademark certificate. The MT4 and MT5 trading regulations are not listed here but are linked from the leverage page. No financial statements, execution policy or conflicts of interest policy are published.
Says “The Client’s funds are virtually kept in the Company’s bank accounts” and that no interest is paid on them, without naming any bank or describing segregation. The company charges no inactivity fees. Currency conversions use the company’s internal rate shown in the Personal Area, and the commissions for each deposit and withdrawal method are published in the Personal Area and may change. Withdrawals must use the deposit method, proportionally where several were used, and only after identity and payment verification; deposit commissions the company compensated may be deducted again if trading turnover is too low.
Describes market execution using quotes and liquidity from unnamed liquidity providers, execution at volume-weighted prices when liquidity is short, slippage at price gaps and the stop out procedure. Clause 7.3 says a stop out will not leave a negative balance and that, if it does, the company will bring the balance back to zero, unless it suspects deliberate abuse, in which case it may cover the loss from the client’s other accounts and hold the client liable. Margin requirements change with seven days’ notice for all clients, or without notice for a particular client or in an emergency; commissions and fees may change without prior notice. Complaints must be emailed to support@amarkets.com within three business days of the dispute and are considered within five business days; unresolved disputes go to the Financial Commission or the courts. The MT4 regulations (revised 26 March 2026) contain the same terms.
The Financial Commission, a private dispute resolution organisation, lists AMarkets as an active member registered on 1 September 2013 and says its clients can file complaints free of charge and are covered by its Compensation Fund up to €20,000 per client. The page does not say which AMarkets company is the member. The fund only pays Financial Commission awards that a member fails to pay; it is not an investor compensation scheme.
Says all deposits are fee-free, deposits are processed instantly and withdrawals are “fast and hassle-free”, funds are returned only to the client’s own verified payment accounts, and the full list of methods for a region is shown in the Personal Area after login. It gives no withdrawal fees, limits or processing times.
Checked on 26 October 2026. Includes two entries dated 2024 for “Amarkets”, both with the website http://www.amarkets.com/, for carrying on unlicensed capital market activities of dealing in securities.
Lists “A-MARKETS” as showing signs of an illegal professional securities market participant, added on 17 November 2021 and last updated on 24 July 2026, with a long list of websites including www.amarkets.com, www.amarkets.org, my.amarkets.org, amarkets.today, a-markets.org and amarketstrading.xyz. We also downloaded the full list (black-list-json) on 26 October 2026; the entry was not marked closed.
On 26 October 2026 the list still included AMarkets (https://ua.amarkets.com).
Press release of 6 July 2023: in the first half of 2023 Bappebti blocked 1,075 domains of unlicensed commodity futures entities. Its list names “Amarkets” for id.a-markets.co, amarkets-indo.com, amarketsprofit.com, amarkets.ng (AMarkets’ Nigerian site) and a0508.amarketstrading.xyz.
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 (updated 19 November 2025), 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 search, 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 resolutions for AMarkets, A-Markets and amarkets.com, and ran web searches for other regulators. We found the Consob, Bappebti, Securities Commission Malaysia, Bank of Russia and NSSMC records on this profile. The CNMV results for “AMARKETS” are other firms (such as Nexamarkets and Vidamarkets), and the FCA warnings returned are about differently named firms such as AIMarkets.
Lists service metrics: verification in one minute, withdrawals “in as fast as 8 minutes”, deposits in ten seconds, execution in 0.03 seconds, 99.9% availability, a Trustpilot support score of 4.8, more than 15 awards and “7 out of 10 clients recommend us”. It publishes no complaint statistics.
Sets leverage by account equity: for forex and metals 1:3000 up to $1,000, falling to 1:200 above $50,000; lower tiers for indices, commodities and cryptocurrencies, and 1:10 for stocks. Leverage may be limited to 1:200 around major news releases and may not exceed 1:1000 between Friday 22:00 and Monday 01:00 server time.
Explains the risks of leveraged contracts for difference, including losses of the initial capital and any further funds deposited, system failures, extended processing in abnormal markets, third-party account management and copy trading.
Press release of 23 December 2021: following a report from the Guardia di Finanza, Consob ordered Italian internet providers to black out 28 unauthorised financial websites under the powers of the 2019 growth decree, among them “AMarkets Ltd (dominio internet www.amarkets.com e relativa pagina https://my.amarkets.org)”.
Press release of 15 October 2020: during September 2020 Bappebti blocked, with the communications ministry, 137 domains and Facebook pages of futures trading entities without its licence. Its list includes “Amarkets” at https://amarkets.com.
Press release of 11 February 2021: in January 2021 Bappebti blocked 68 domains of commodity futures entities without its licence, mostly foreign brokers. The list includes three entries for “Amarkets”: amarketsaffiliates.com, amarkets.info and www.amarkets.org.
Press release of 18 September 2021: in August 2021 Bappebti blocked 249 domains of futures trading websites without its licence. The list includes “Amarkets” at amarketsonline.com and amarkets.today.
Press release of 31 December 2024 listing 1,046 domains of unlicensed commodity futures entities blocked during 2024, by address only and without entity names. The list includes my-amarkets.org, id.a-markets.co and the Facebook page facebook.com/AMarketsAsia.
Announces on 24 January 2023 that six projects were added to the NSSMC’s list of unreliable investment projects, including “AMarkets” (ua.amarkets.com), and reminds investors of the risks of dealing with persons whose activity in Ukraine is outside regulation and supervision.
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