IOSCO receives alerts and warnings from its members about firms which are not authorized to provide investment services in the jurisdiction which issued the alert or warning. Some of the alerts or warnings are about unauthorized firms using names similar to those of authorized firms or about unauthorized firms falsely claiming to be associated with […]

Two firms that have been the subject of FCA warnings offer links to fake register that looks like the real thing. Unauthorised firms targeting UK consumers have devised a devious tactic to convince potential investors that they are fully authorised and regulated by providing a link to a fake version of the regulator’s online ‘register’ […]