Tag: South Africa Forex regulation

May 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

South Africa's FSB warns against FX firm TradingBanks

South Africa's Financial Services Board (FSB) has issued a public warning against conducting financial services business with TradingBanks, an offshore FX firm, purporting to be a registered entity. The regulator notes that TradingBanks is not authorised to render financial services in South Africa and is not a representative of an authorised financial services provider as…

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February 11, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

South Africa's FSB grants 635 financial service providers licenses in FY 2015

South Africa's Financial Services Board (FSB) has just published its Annual Report for the fiscal year to March 31, 2015, providing some key numbers regarding the oversight of financial service providers (FSPs), a group which includes investment intermediaries such as Forex brokers. The regulator reported that its Financial Advisory and Intermediate Services (FAIS) division authorized…

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October 13, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

ACM Gold has its FSB South Africa license reinstated - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ACM Gold, one of South Africa's leading retail forex brokers, has had its license reinstated by South African financial regulator, the Financial Services Board (FSB). LeapRate was first to report that ACM had its FSB license suspended to 'provisionally withdrawn' by South African financial regulator the Financial Services Board (FSB) back on August…

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