Risk scorecard
Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.
Regulation
7/10 · HighNo trading licence anywhere: the Marshall Islands number is a company registration, the FinCEN entry is a money-services registration, and the circulating United States identification numbers return no match on the NFA register.
Identity & transparency
5/10 · ModerateThe registry entry matches the published entity, number, address and date exactly, which is a genuine pass, but no directors, owners or real operating office are disclosed and client contact runs through messaging numbers in two countries.
Withdrawals & conduct
9/10 · CriticalA sustained fund-integrity pattern from November 2025 to October 2026 across four countries and three platforms, with amounts up to USD 19,078.84, account numbers and dates, and the firm's own replies confirming balances are held under open-ended review.
Reputation
7/10 · HighA serious and current complaint cluster set against 303 reviews averaging 4.3, a bimodal distribution with an empty middle, and no regulator warning on any list worldwide.
Website claims
6/10 · HighNo false licence claim, which counts in its favour, but the advertised founding year has shifted from 2018 to 2021 against a verified 2022 record, and brand-tied marketing offers a 100 percent deposit bonus and a 75 percent effectiveness strategy.
Operational history
6/10 · HighA verified four and a half year track record, with both the company and the oldest domain dated from primary records, reduced by the documented overstatement of that history.
Who they are
A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.
The desk file on this operation:
- Brand: Bridge Markets
- Legal entity: BridgeMarkets Ltd, a Marshall Islands corporation, entity number 113891, incorporated 6 April 2022 and currently active
- Registered: Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960, care of The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands
- Website: bridgemarkets.global, with the older bridgemarkets.eu still carrying the client login and all the legal documents
- Only licence: none. There is a Marshall Islands company number and a United States money-services registration held by a Delaware company called Bridge Markets LLC. Neither is a trading licence.
- Offers: leveraged forex and CFDs, commodities, indices, crypto and the firm's own synthetic indices on MetaTrader 5, plus copy trading, PAMM and MAM accounts and an introducing-broker programme
- Not accepted: residents of the United States, Canada, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Sudan
- Age claim: the site shows 2021 to 2026. The company and the first domain both date to the first half of 2022. An archived version of the site from May 2024 claimed 2018.
- Named in complaints: clients identify the owner as Juan Sebastian Avendano and the chief executive as Juan Torino. Neither name appears anywhere on the company's own website.
Regulation
Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.
Proof of regulation on an official register: No
We could not confirm this broker on any genuine regulator’s register.
Licences the broker publishes
Registrar of Corporations, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Found by our investigation (2) — the broker does not list these on its own site
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), United States
Found by us — not listed by the broker
National Futures Association (NFA), United States
Found by us — not listed by the broker
Why we reached this verdict
How the evidence adds up.
Four things decided it, and each rests on a primary source.
- There is no financial licence, anywhere. The number shown in the footer, 113891, is a company registration. The Marshall Islands Registrar of Corporations lists BridgeMarkets Ltd as an active corporation, incorporated 6 April 2022. The Marshall Islands does not license or supervise forex and CFD brokers at all, so that number says the company exists and nothing more. The two United States identification numbers that circulate for this broker, 0562743 and 0561418, return no match on the National Futures Association register, and a firm-name search there returns only an unrelated introducing broker in Dubai. To its credit, the firm does not claim a licence on its own site. It does not have one, yet it takes retail deposits with leverage.
- Withdrawals stop when the account is profitable. This is the pattern that carries the verdict. A client in Ecuador describes USD 19,078.84 still showing on the dashboard in December 2025 while the withdraw and transfer functions were removed from the account. He was told by email that seven trades were classified as high-frequency trading, was never sent the technical report he repeatedly asked for, and was then told on a call that the real reason was that the firm could no longer process his payments and that it did not suit them to have a trader generating that much. Another client grew USD 1,300 to USD 13,000 in nine days and had the account suspended on 13 November 2025. A strategy provider reports two accounts blocked holding over USD 5,000, an unexplained internal movement of USD 3,500, and his copy-trading followers told they could not withdraw because they had copied him.
- The cluster is current and it is not one angry customer. Between 30 September and 16 October 2026 we counted ten named clients, in four countries, describing the same mechanism within days of each other, with amounts from USD 100 to over USD 5,000, dates, and MetaTrader account numbers such as 7927912, 7916633 and 845064. The same complaint appears on two further sites, including one from July 2025 and one from October 2025 giving a full trail of USD 8,100 deposited and two withdrawal requests, of USD 2,000 and USD 1,020, unpaid after thirteen and seven days.
- The company confirms the mechanism itself. In its public replies it does not dispute that the money is held. It states that risk and compliance can place restrictions while it reviews an account, that these reviews have no estimated completion date, and in one reply it justifies a suspension by pointing to how fast the account grew. For a firm with no regulator, that means a client whose balance is withheld has no appeal and nobody to complain to.
On our scale the evidence supports a likely-scam finding rather than a confirmed one: no regulator or court has made a finding against this firm, and the identity checks pass cleanly. The 70 percent reflects three independent strong findings across official registers, archived records and client reports.
Evidence ledger
Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.
E1The United States identification number carried for this broker, 0562743, returns no match on the National Futures Association register, and a firm-name search for Bridge Markets returns only an unrelated introducing broker in Dubai. The second number that circulates, 0561418, also returns no match.
StrongNFA BASICE2The Marshall Islands Registrar of Corporations lists entity 113891 as BridgeMarkets Ltd, a corporation, status active, existence date 6 April 2022, registered agent The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands. The company in the website footer is real and the details match.
E3That same registry entry is a corporate registration only. It records company type, status and agent, and carries no licence, permission or supervisory status, because the Marshall Islands does not license forex and CFD brokers.
E4FinCEN registration 31000287566463 belongs to Bridge Markets LLC, 8 The Green Ste A, Dover, Delaware, received 3 December 2024, covering check cashing, money transmission and dealing in foreign exchange. FinCEN states on the same page that inclusion is not a recommendation, certification of legitimacy or endorsement.
ModerateFinCEN MSB Registrant SearchE5A cluster of ten named clients between 30 September and 16 October 2026 report withdrawals held without a deadline, with amounts of USD 100, USD 200, USD 309.98, USD 3,500 and over USD 5,000, and MetaTrader account numbers 7927912, 7916633 and 845064.
E6A client reports USD 19,078.84 still displayed on his dashboard in December 2025 while the withdraw and transfer functions were removed, a compliance email citing seven trades as high-frequency trading with the supporting report never supplied, and a later phone call giving a different reason: that the firm could no longer process his payments.
E7In its own published replies the firm confirms the mechanism: that risk and compliance may restrict accounts while reviewing, that such reviews have no estimated completion date, and in one case it justifies a suspension by the speed at which the account grew from USD 1,300 to USD 13,000.
E8The same complaint appears on a second platform, where a user writes in July 2025 that a withdrawal attempt produced nothing and no response.
E9A third site carries a full transaction trail from October 2025: USD 8,100 deposited, USD 2,000 requested on 7 October and USD 1,020 on 13 October, neither processed by 20 October, with no reply by email, messaging or phone.
ModerateGlobeGain broker reviewsE10An archived copy of the site from 18 May 2024 carries the line 2018 to 2024 alongside the same Marshall Islands number 113891, while the company was incorporated on 6 April 2022 and the oldest domain registered on 2 March 2022. The site now advertises 2021.
E11The global alert network that aggregates warnings from more than 150 regulators returns no entry for bridgemarkets, and a broader search returns only unrelated firms. No regulator has named this operation.
ModerateIOSCO I-SCANE12The firm runs a genuine MetaTrader 5 server, BridgeMarkets-MT5, with desktop and mobile installers served from MetaQuotes own download network, and names recognised outside suppliers for identity checks, card payments and liquidity. This is a real trading operation, not a simulated terminal.
ModerateBridge Markets official websiteE13The review base is strongly bimodal: 303 reviews averaging 4.3, with 80 percent at five stars, under 1 percent each at three and two stars, and 13 percent at one star, with no recent history of the company inviting reviews.
E14The British company of the same name, Bridge Markets Limited, number 15159310, was incorporated on 23 September 2023 in Hessle, East Yorkshire and is registered under other information technology service activities. It is not an authorised financial firm.
ModerateUK Companies HouseE15The United Kingdom warning published on 3 September 2026 names Bridge Marks Limited and the addresses bridgemarks.cc, bridgemarks.net, bridgemarks.info and webtrader.bridgemarks.online. That is a different operation, and none of its findings belong to this broker.
E16The oldest domain, bridgemarkets.eu, was registered on 2 March 2022 through Key-Systems, with the on-site contact recorded as Bridge Markets in Limassol, Cyprus. The main site bridgemarkets.global was registered only on 7 August 2025 and bmplus.finance on 5 March 2025.
ModerateEURid domain registry record
The other side
The strongest case in this broker’s favour.
The case for the defence is real and we put it fairly.
- This is not a fake company. The entity in the footer resolves exactly on the Marshall Islands registrar's own database, with a matching number, a matching address and a matching date. Many of the brokers we investigate fail at this first step. This one does not.
- This is not a fake platform. The firm runs a genuine MetaTrader 5 server, with installers served from MetaQuotes own download network, and uses recognised outside suppliers for identity checks, payments and liquidity. A pure boiler room does not build that.
- No regulator anywhere has warned about it. The global alert network that aggregates warnings from more than 150 regulators has no entry for the brand or the domain. There is no enforcement action and no fraud-related court record naming this entity.
- Most clients do get paid. Of 303 reviews on the firm's main review profile, 80 percent are five star, many from clients who specifically praise fast withdrawals. One of the complainants confirms that a withdrawal on 3 October 2026 reached his wallet while a second on 5 October did not. This is not an operation that takes every deposit and disappears.
- The firm answers. It replies to every negative review, by name, and engages with the detail rather than hiding.
- The compliance explanation is not absurd. Brokers that quote their own synthetic instruments are the counterparty to every trade on them, and they do legitimately restrict latency arbitrage and abusive automated strategies. If one copy-trading strategy really was exploiting a pricing flaw, freezing it is a defensible commercial act, and that would explain why the October complaints cluster around a single copy group.
- A warning that is not about them. The United Kingdom regulator published a warning in September 2026 about a firm called Bridge Marks Limited, operating on bridgemarks.cc and related addresses. That is a different operation and we have not counted it against this broker.
What the defence does not answer is the asymmetry. Depositing is instant and unverified, by several clients' accounts, while releasing money runs through a review with no deadline, no evidence shared with the client and no appeal. And because the firm holds no licence, there is no authority anywhere that can compel it to pay.
What would change this
What we would need to see to revise the verdict.
Concrete things that would move this verdict, in either direction.
- Toward safe: a trading licence from a real financial regulator, verifiable on that regulator's own register under the name BridgeMarkets Ltd, covering the entity that actually holds client money.
- Toward safe: the October 2026 cases closing with the money paid, documented by the same clients updating their own public accounts. Several of them have said they will.
- Toward safe: a published, time-bound withdrawal policy that states a maximum review period and the evidence a client is entitled to receive when an account is restricted.
- Toward safe: the technical reports the firm says it relies on being supplied to the affected clients, with timestamps and ticket numbers, so a third party can judge whether the high-frequency classification was justified.
- Toward worse: a warning or enforcement notice from any regulator naming bridgemarkets.global, bridgemarkets.eu or BridgeMarkets Ltd.
- Toward worse: any credible report of the firm demanding an additional payment, such as a tax, fee or insurance, before releasing a balance. We found none, and it would change the picture immediately.
- Toward worse: the withdrawal complaints continuing to accumulate past October 2026, or the site going offline with balances outstanding.
Check it yourself
Official registers and warning lists. Verify every claim first-hand.
Marshall Islands Registrar of Corporations, entity search
Enter entity number 113891 to see BridgeMarkets Ltd, active since 6 April 2022.
FinCEN money services business registrant search
Enter 31000287566463 to see the Delaware money-services registration, which is not a trading licence.
NFA BASIC, United States futures and forex register
Search Bridge Markets to confirm there is no United States registration for this broker.
NFA BASIC lookup for the number 0562743
The identification number that circulates for this broker returns no match.
UK Companies House, Bridge Markets Limited
The British company of the same name, registered as an IT services business.
IOSCO global regulator alert network
Warning lists from more than 150 regulators. No entry names this broker.
Client reviews for bridgemarkets.eu
Where the withdrawal complaints and the company's replies are published.
Bridge Markets official website
The firm's own site, including the Marshall Islands registration in the footer.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this broker’s safety.
Is Bridge Markets a scam?
We rate it a likely scam at 70 percent risk. The company is genuine and four years old, but it holds no trading licence from any regulator, and clients have been reporting frozen withdrawals and suspended profitable accounts continuously since November 2025. That combination means a client whose money is held has no regulator to appeal to.
Is Bridge Markets a fraud?
No regulator or court has found that it is, and we do not make that finding. What we can say is that we assess the risk of fraud as high. The conduct clients describe, with balances visible on screen but withdrawals and transfers disabled after a profitable run, is the pattern that most concerns us.
Is Bridge Markets regulated?
No. It holds no licence from any financial regulator anywhere in the world. The footer shows Marshall Islands registration 113891, which the Marshall Islands registrar's database confirms, but that is a company registration. The Marshall Islands does not license or supervise forex and CFD brokers.
Can I withdraw my money from Bridge Markets?
Many clients do, and several praise the speed. But a recurring group cannot. Between 30 September and 16 October 2026 at least ten named clients reported withdrawals of USD 100 to over USD 5,000 held in an open-ended compliance review. If you hold a balance, withdraw it in full rather than letting it grow.
Is my money safe with Bridge Markets?
There is no deposit protection. Because the firm holds no licence, there is no compensation scheme, no ombudsman and no authority that can order it to release your funds. Your only practical leverage is a card chargeback through your bank, within your bank's time limit.
Who owns Bridge Markets?
The company does not publish its management or ownership anywhere on its website. Clients in their complaints name the owner as Juan Sebastian Avendano and the chief executive as Juan Torino. The contracting company is BridgeMarkets Ltd, a Marshall Islands corporation whose registered address is that of its registered agent.
How old is Bridge Markets?
About four and a half years. The Marshall Islands company was incorporated on 6 April 2022 and the first domain, bridgemarkets.eu, was registered on 2 March 2022. The site currently advertises 2021 to 2026, and an archived version from May 2024 advertised 2018, neither of which matches the record.
What is the Marshall Islands registration worth?
As financial protection, nothing. It confirms a company exists. The Marshall Islands has no regulator that issues forex or CFD licences and does not supervise brokers, so number 113891 tells you who you are contracting with and nothing about whether your deposit is safe.
What about the FinCEN registration?
A company called Bridge Markets LLC, at a Dover, Delaware address, holds a current FinCEN money services business registration, number 31000287566463, filed in December 2024. FinCEN states in plain terms that inclusion is not an approval or endorsement of any business. It is a money-transmission registration, not permission to run a brokerage.
Is Bridge Markets a clone of another broker?
No. We ran the check. The company name, registration number and registered address on the website all match the Marshall Islands registry entry exactly, and the firm does not borrow any other company's licence number or identity.
Is Bridge Markets the same as Bridge Marks Limited?
No, and the names are easy to confuse. The United Kingdom regulator published a warning in September 2026 about Bridge Marks Limited, which operates on bridgemarks.cc and related addresses. That is a different operation, and we have not counted that warning against Bridge Markets.
Why do profitable accounts get suspended?
The firm says its monitoring classifies some order patterns as high-frequency or toxic flow on its synthetic indices, and that risk and compliance can restrict an account while it reviews. Clients say they are never shown the evidence, that explanations have changed between emails and phone calls, and that reviews run for weeks with no deadline.
What should I do if my Bridge Markets withdrawal is stuck?
Put it in writing to the client, compliance and risk addresses and ask for the exact clause breached, the technical evidence, and a dated deadline. Keep every reply. Raise a chargeback with your card issuer if you funded by card, and file a report with your national financial regulator even though the firm is offshore.
What should I check before depositing with any broker?
Three things, in order. Find the licence number on the broker's own site, then search it on the regulator's own register, not on a review site. Check that the licensed entity name is the same company that will hold your money. Then read the one-star reviews from the last three months, because that is where a withdrawal problem shows up first.
What we recommend
The practical takeaway from everything above.
What we would tell someone asking us directly.
- Do not deposit new money. There is no regulator behind this firm, so there is no deposit protection, no ombudsman and no authority that can order a payout.
- If you hold a balance, withdraw it in full now, before you build it up further. The documented pattern affects large and profitable balances far more than small ones.
- If a withdrawal is already stuck, put the request in writing to the official client, compliance and risk addresses, and ask for three specific things: the exact clause you are said to have breached, the technical evidence behind it, and a dated deadline. Keep every reply.
- Use your payment provider. If you funded by card, raise a chargeback with your bank within its time limit and attach the correspondence. This is usually the only real leverage available against an unlicensed firm.
- Report it where you live. File with your national financial regulator and consumer protection authority even if the firm is offshore. Those filings are what eventually produce a warning entry.
- Ignore anyone who offers to recover your funds for an upfront fee. Those approaches target people who have just posted a complaint, and they are a second loss on top of the first.
- Be careful with the name. A separate firm called Bridge Marks Limited carries a United Kingdom warning. Check which company you are actually dealing with before you act on anything you read.
This is an independent assessment of risk, not a legal ruling. Scores and verdicts follow the Wikilix broker-safety methodology and can change as new evidence appears. Review scores are treated with caution when a broker’s reviews look manipulated. Last reviewed October 17, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.
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