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BDSwiss licences

3 licences are on record for BDSwiss. 2 have been checked against an official register.

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One licence has ended, and none is recorded as in force

Last checked Nov 12, 2026

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Regulation on record for BDSwiss

Counts of what is on record, not a rating. Each figure describes the register entries Wikilix holds and the checks it has run against them.

Licences on record
3
Issuing authorities
3
From tier-1 or tier-2 authorities
1
Found on an official register
2

BDSwiss has 3 licences on record with Wikilix, issued by 3 authorities across 3 jurisdictions. One of them was issued by a tier-1 or tier-2 authority — the regimes with the strictest capital, reporting and client-money rules. We located 2 of 3 on the issuing authority’s own register.

2 licences come from authorities classed as offshore. An offshore regime can be a legitimate registration, but it typically carries lower capital requirements and no compensation scheme.

Issuing authorities

Jurisdictions

Licence record

Licences on record

Every licence on record for BDSwiss, strongest authority first.

3 records
A licence we could not confirm, or one a register has closed, is listed with that finding rather than left out.
Protection

What this licence protects

FSCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to ZAR 500,000
  • Complaints routeFSCA Dispute Resolution
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how BDSwiss applies it.
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about the licences held by BDSwiss

Answered from the register entries on this page.

Most Popular Questions

On 5 August 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) stopped BDSwiss Holding PLC and the BDSwiss group from UK CFD business. A CFD, or contract for difference, lets a client trade on a price move without owning the asset. The FCA found that 99% of UK clients traded through unauthorised companies outside the UK. WIKILIX's scam investigation lists the FCA decision as a main reason for the likely scam rating.

Clients report that, from late May 2026, BDSwiss moved their balances into copper rights sold by TheCopperClub, without their consent. The copper rights are locked for 24 months. One client reports 21,490.13 euros moved, and another client reports 250 euros moved. WIKILIX's scam investigation lists the balance moves as a main reason for rating BDSwiss a likely scam.

Yes, clients report long delays. WIKILIX's scam investigation found client reports, since mid-2024, of BDSwiss withdrawals pending for months, some for more than a year. One client requested 1,311 euros on 27 August 2025 and was still waiting 5 months later. In September 2024, BDSwiss admitted difficulties with delayed payments and withdrawals.

WIKILIX's scam investigation, published on 12 November 2026, rates BDSwiss a likely scam, with high confidence. The main reasons are client reports of withdrawals held for months since mid-2024, and of balances moved into locked copper rights in 2026. In September 2024, BDSwiss admitted difficulties with delayed payments and withdrawals. The rating is a risk assessment, not a finding of fraud by a court or a regulator.

None of the 5 companies that BDSwiss names on its client portals is in Switzerland. WIKILIX's scam investigation found a judgment of the Bern Commercial Court in Switzerland, dated 26 August 2025, against BDSwiss AG. Under the judgment, BDSwiss AG must remove 'Swiss' from its name and the Swiss cross from its logo. The BDSwiss sign-up form sends Swiss residents to BDSTrading, which the BDSwiss portal calls a brand for Swiss residents only.

Not as a CFD provider: WIKILIX lists no South African licence that lets BDSwiss sell CFDs (contracts for difference) directly to clients. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) authorised BDSwiss Markets SA (Pty) Ltd as a financial services provider, number FSP 49479. The FSCA authorisation covers advice, intermediary services and discretionary services, and it is not an over-the-counter derivatives provider licence. BDSwiss says BDSwiss Markets SA (Pty) Ltd only acts as an intermediary for products that BDS Markets Ltd supplies.

The BDSwiss client portal marks 25 countries as forbidden for clients:

  • the United States;
  • 6 US territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the US Minor Outlying Islands;
  • the United Kingdom, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Portugal;
  • Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius and Seychelles.

BDSwiss also refuses US Reportable Persons, a group that the BDSwiss portal says includes US citizens living abroad and green card holders. The main BDSwiss portal sends visitors from India, South Africa, Canada and Russia to the BDSwiss Global portal at dashboard-global.bdswiss.com.

The BDSwiss web addresses km.bdswiss.com, www.bdswiss.com, global.bdswiss.com and mau.bdswiss.com now send visitors to the BDSwiss client login portal at dashboard.bdswiss.com. BDSwiss names BDS Markets of Mauritius as the company that runs dashboard.bdswiss.com.

BDSwiss names 5 companies, and each company runs a separate BDSwiss client portal. The company numbers are the numbers BDSwiss gives.

  • BDS Markets, Mauritius, number C143350: the main portal, dashboard.bdswiss.com.
  • BDS Ltd, Seychelles, number 8424660-1: the BDSwiss Global portal.
  • BDSwiss Investments LTD, the Comoros, number HY00423197: the BDSwiss KM portal.
  • BDSwiss Holding Ltd, Cyprus, number HE 300153: the BDSwiss EU portal.
  • BDSwiss Markets SA (Pty) Ltd, South Africa: the BDSwiss SA portal.

Check which BDSwiss company your client agreement names before you deposit.

BDSwiss has no licence from an EU or UK regulator on WIKILIX's record, and WIKILIX's scam investigation rates BDSwiss a likely scam. WIKILIX lists 3 licences for 3 different BDSwiss companies, in Mauritius, South Africa and the Comoros. The Mauritius and Comoros licences come with no investor compensation scheme, which is a fund that repays clients if a licensed firm fails. The South African authorisation does not let BDSwiss sell CFDs (contracts for difference) directly to clients.

BDSwiss has 3 licence records with Wikilix, issued by 3 authorities across 3 jurisdictions. A licence on record means an authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
BDSwiss holds licence records issued by FSCA, FSC, MISA. Each authority’s own record — its tier, jurisdiction and client-protection rules — is linked from this page.
One of the licence records held by BDSwiss comes from tier-1 or tier-2 authorities (0 tier-1, 1 tier-2). Those regimes set the strictest capital, reporting and client-money requirements.
We located 2 of the 3 licence records held by BDSwiss on the issuing authority’s own register. Every entry has been looked up. An unchecked entry is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
BDSwiss has licence records in South Africa, Mauritius, Comoros. A licence applies in the jurisdiction that issued it; it does not by itself cover clients elsewhere.
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