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Exness (institutional / B2B entities Exness (UK) Ltd and Exness (Cy) Ltd) — institutional liquidity provider
This record reflects current operational details with noted gaps in verification.
Licence, read literally
| Regulator | Licence number | Jurisdiction | Tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCA | 730729 | UK | tier-1 | open source ↗ |
| CySEC | 178/12 | Cyprus | tier-2 | open source ↗ |
| FSA Seychelles | SD025 | Seychelles | tier-3 | open source ↗ |
| FSCA | 51024 | South Africa | tier-2 | open source ↗ |
| FSC Mauritius | GB20025294 | 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
Unverified Group Headquarters
The group's head-office claim is not verified from their own pages.
Source: firm disclosures page
Lack of Published Venues
No published data-centre list is available on fetched pages.
Source: firm disclosures page
The claims ledger
Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.
Testable claims
- Exness (UK) Ltd is an Investment Firm authorised and regulated by the FCA under FRN 730729, operates exness.uk, and per the group's own regulation page does not offer trading services to retail clients (https://www.exness.com/regulation/)
- Exness (Cy) Ltd is a Cyprus Investment Firm authorised and regulated by CySEC with licence number 178/12, operates exness.eu, and per the same page does not offer services to retail clients
- Exness (SC) Ltd is a Securities Dealer authorised by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority with licence number SD025 (own site); the FSA Seychelles business register lists Exness (SC) Ltd, Type: Securities Dealer, website exness.com (https://fsaseychelles.sc/search-business/exness-sc-ltd)
- Exness ZA (PTY) Ltd is authorised by the South African FSCA as FSP 51024, and Exness (SC) Ltd is additionally authorised as an OTC Derivatives Provider (ODP) by the FSCA; Exness (MU) Ltd holds a Mauritius FSC Investment Dealer licence GB20025294
Claims we cannot verify from outside
- Trading-volume and 'most trusted' style marketing metrics on exness.com are the firm's own figures/characterisations
Perimeter and coverage
| Asset classes | Venues | Connectivity | Clients accepted | Explicitly refused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FX, Metals, Energies, Indices, Stocks, Cryptocurrencies | Retail and professional traders via international entities (Exness (SC) Ltd etc.), Institutional/professional-only services via Exness (UK) Ltd and Exness (Cy) Ltd, which the group states do not offer services to retail clients |
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.