Is CSV Markets a scam?
Wikilix independent safety report
CSV Markets shows several hallmarks of a high-risk operation, and we assess it as a likely scam. It relies on a single offshore licence we could not confirm, and its records include a second licence…
Risk scorecard · each area scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst)
Broker Summary
What Wikilix has recorded about CSV Markets: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
CSV Markets Broker Overview
CSV Markets is a retail forex and CFD brand presented as the business of CSV Markets Limited, a company associated with the Comoros and a registered address on Bonovo Road in Fomboni, on the island of Moheli. Two account tiers are on record, a Standard account and an ECN account, both with a minimum deposit of 100 USD and leverage of up to 1:1000. No financial regulator has been confirmed to supervise the operation, and the public website at csvmarkets.com is not serving any of its pages.
CSV Markets Regulation and License
No licence from any financial authority could be confirmed for CSV Markets or for CSV Markets Limited. No licence number, no supervising authority and no jurisdiction of supervision is available, and the brand publishes no regulatory disclosure that can be read.
The operating company could not be traced either. CSV Markets Limited does not appear on the published register of entities of the Mwali (Moheli) International Services Authority, Registrar of Companies, the registrar for the jurisdiction the brand is associated with, and a search of that registrar's own site returns no record of the name. There is no Legal Entity Identifier for the name in the GLEIF database and no company of that name at UK Companies House. A company registration, had one been found, would only show that a company exists. It would not be a financial licence and it would carry no client protection.
Is CSV Markets Regulated?
No. Nothing establishes that CSV Markets holds a licence from any financial authority. Dealing with an unlicensed broker means no regulator enforces the separation of client money from company money, no compensation scheme stands behind a deposit, and there is no official complaints route if funds are not returned.
Is CSV Markets Safe?
The available evidence does not support treating CSV Markets as safe. Three findings drive that assessment: no financial licence could be confirmed, the named operating company could not be located on any official register that was searched, and the public website is not functioning, so a prospective client cannot read the terms, the risk disclosure, the withdrawal conditions or the company details before depositing. A site that serves none of its pages also leaves an existing client with no published route to request a withdrawal.
CSV Markets Account Types
Two tiers are on record, a Standard account and an ECN account. Both carry a minimum deposit of 100 USD, maximum leverage of 1:1000 and a minimum trade size of 0.01 lots, so the tiers are separated by pricing rather than by access. The instrument range on record covers 55 or more currency pairs alongside indices, shares and a small number of commodities.
CSV Markets Spreads, Commissions and Fees
Spreads start at 1.6 pips on the Standard account and are advertised from 0.0 pips on the ECN account. No commission figure is published for either tier, which matters on the ECN account because a raw spread account normally recovers its cost through a per lot commission. No swap, inactivity or withdrawal fee schedule is available, so the real cost of trading cannot be established.
CSV Markets Leverage
Maximum leverage is 1:1000 on both tiers. That sits far above the retail limits set by regulators in the United Kingdom, the European Union and Australia, and at that ratio a move of roughly a tenth of a percent against a fully used position exhausts the margin behind it.
CSV Markets Pros and Cons
- A low entry point at 100 USD, with a choice between a Standard and an ECN tier.
- No confirmed regulation by any financial authority.
- The named operating company could not be found on any official register that was searched.
- The public website serves none of its pages, so terms, funding conditions and company details cannot be read before depositing.
- No trading platform, deposit method or withdrawal method is on record.
CSV Markets Review and Assessment
CSV Markets is better treated as an unverified operation than as an established broker. The trading proposition on record, a 100 USD entry, 1:1000 leverage and an ECN tier, is ordinary for the offshore end of the market, but nothing behind it could be confirmed: no licence, no traceable company, no working website. The consideration that matters most before funding an account is that if money were not returned there is currently no identified regulator to complain to and no verified legal entity to pursue.
Regulatory Licenses
We have not confirmed any regulation for CSV Markets. Money deposited with an unregulated broker is protected only by the company itself.
Trading with an unregulated broker puts your deposit at risk.
No regulation
We have not confirmed any regulation for CSV Markets. An unregulated broker is not supervised by a financial authority, and money you deposit is protected only by the company itself.
What this means for you
- No compensation scheme covers your funds.
- No regulator to escalate a complaint to.
- No audit of how client money is held.
Global Domains
One domain on record. All active and served over HTTPS.
Corporate Network
One legal entity behind the CSV Markets brand.
Company Registration
CSV Markets names CSV Markets Limited as the operating company. We could not confirm that registration on the registry.
- Legal entity
- CSV Markets Limited
- Registration number
- HT00325029
- Jurisdiction
- Comoros
- Registry
- Mwali International Services Authority (Comoros)
- Registered address
- Bonovo Road, Fomboni, Island of Moheli, Comoros Union



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