COUNTERPARTY FILE · last re-checked 2026-09
Drovix — institutional liquidity provider
A 2024-registered venue with a genuine tier-2 licence, an unusually falsifiable public file, and no investor compensation scheme behind client funds — every one of those facts sourced from the firm's own regulatory page.
Licence, read literally
| Regulator | Licence number | Jurisdiction | Tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FSC Mauritius | GB21026813 | Mauritius | tier-2 | open source ↗ |
Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-2 means real supervision and client-money segregation, without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.
Residuals a counterparty carries
Firm age
The drovix.com domain was registered 2 May 2024 (GoDaddy); the in-house stack launch was covered by newswires the same year. Two years of public history is young for a counterparty holding client collateral.
Source: WHOIS record; TradingView wire coverage
No compensation backstop
The FSC of Mauritius does not operate an investor compensation fund; client funds are not protected by any government guarantee. Protections are contractual and operational (segregation, ISAs, credit frameworks), not statutory.
Source: drovix.com/regulatory-status — 'No investor compensation scheme'
Self-measured performance
Latency (<1ms internal target), LP count (15+) and fill ratios are the venue's own measurements until a counterparty reproduces them in UAT. The TCA export architecture makes them auditable for an actual client — a prospective one should insist on it.
Source: drovix.com/technology — targets stated as 'targets, not guarantees'
The claims ledger
Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.
Testable claims
- Internal execution target <1ms on the C++/Aeron stack, with the measurement boundary disclosed (internal only; client RTT network-dependent)
- Active-active failover across four Equinix venues with redundant cross-connects
- 99.9% uptime SLA target, published as a target rather than a guarantee
- Per-fill TCA export (spread captured, slippage vs mid, fill ratio, time-to-fill) for the counterparty's own analytics
Claims we cannot verify from outside
- LP count (15+) and fill ratios are the venue's own measurement
- Internalisation quality ('zero market impact' routing) cannot be observed from outside the portal
Perimeter and coverage
| Asset classes | Venues | Connectivity | Clients accepted | Explicitly refused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FX spot & forwards (60+ pairs), Precious metals, Index CFDs (15+), Energy CFDs, Equity CFDs (1,500+), Additional classes by approval | Equinix NY3 (New York), Equinix LD4 (London), Equinix SG1 (Singapore), Equinix TY3 (Tokyo) | FIX 4.4, FIX drop-copy (on request), REST API, WebSocket streaming, MT5 manager bridge, UAT/sandbox at onboarding | Brokers & prime-of-prime, Hedge funds & systematic firms, Proprietary trading firms, Family offices & asset managers, Institutions & corporate treasury | Retail clients (by design), UK persons, US persons, Published restricted-jurisdiction list |
A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as disclosure, not as a defect.